1. Joel Conrad Bakan was born on 1959 and is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician, filmmaker, and professor at the Peter A Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
12 Facts About Joel Bakan
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Joel Bakan was educated at Simon Fraser University, University of Oxford, Dalhousie University and Harvard University.
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Joel Bakan served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985.
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Joel Bakan then pursued a master's degree at Harvard Law School.
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Joel Bakan joined the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 1990 as an associate professor.
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Joel Bakan teaches constitutional Law, contracts, socio-legal courses, and the graduate seminar.
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Joel Bakan has won the Faculty of Law's Teaching Excellence Award twice and a UBC Killam Research Prize.
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Joel Bakan has a son from his first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline.
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Joel Bakan helped establish the Marlee Kline Memorial Lectures in Social Justice to commemorate her contributions to Canadian law and feminist legal theory.
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Joel Bakan is married to Canadian actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins.
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Joel Bakan authored The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, a book analyzing the evolution and modern-day behavior of corporations from a critical perspective.
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Joel Bakan is the author of books on Canadian constitutional law, including Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs.