Joel Bakan
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Born in Lansing, Michigan, Joel Bakan moved in 1970 with his parents to
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he graduated from Eric
Hamber Secondary high school. He went on to earn a BA at Simon Fraser
University (1981), and then, as a Rhodes Scholar, a BA in law from
Oxford University in 1983. After receiving a Canadian law degree at
Dalhousie University (1984), he served as Law Clerk to the Supreme
Court of Canada for Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985, and then went
to Harvard where he completed master's degree in law (1987). He was
assistant professor at Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School for two years
when he returned to Vancouver to join the Faculty of Law at the
University of British Columbia as an Associate Professor. Today,
Professor Bakan teaches Constitutional Law and theory at UBC.
