Ireh Iyioha

Irehobhude O. Iyioha ('Ireh Iyioha'), LLB (Hons), BL, LLM, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the inaugural holder of the UBC Professorship in Race and Access to Justice at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia; an Associate at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University; and a Full Professor (adj.) at the John Dossetor Centre for Health Ethics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. She previously served as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, and as an Associate Adj. Professor at the Dossetor Centre from 2017 to 2022. She has taught at the Faculties of Law at Western University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Alberta, and currently teaches and supervises students at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in the Executive Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program. Dr. Iyioha is editor and co-editor of two books – Women's Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives , 1st Edition (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020) and Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law  (London: Ashgate, 2015) (with R. N. Nwabueze). She was a 2021 Recipient of a Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Law for the Future Fund Grant (LFFF) to study inequality and the limits of pandemic law and policy, and currently holds a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for a multi-country study of populism and obedience to law in the context of public health restrictions. She is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for her scholarship, service, and teaching, including the 18^th World Congress on Medical Law Award issued by the World Association for Medical Law, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award for Scholarly Work that Makes a Substantial Contribution to Legal Literature, and the University of Victoria Law Students’ Society First Year Class Teaching Award for making “a special contribution to legal education through effective and engaging classroom teaching and a demonstrated commitment to assisting and supporting the academic work” of students.