Margaret Isabel Hall, Law Professor

B.A Hons (UBC), LL.B (Queen’s), LL.M (UBC)

Margaret Isabel Hall taught torts and jurisprudence at the University of Ottawa before returning to Vancouver, where she took up the position of Staff Lawyer at the British Columbia Law Institute. She worked as lead researcher and writer on the BCLI’s law and ageing projects, and was instrumental in the development of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law at the BCLI, becoming the Centre’s first Director before leaving to teach in the UBC Law Faculty. As Assistant Professor (Without Review) at UBC she taught torts, property, law and aging, advanced legal research and writing, and served as the Director of Legal Research and Writing. During this period, she also taught in the summer program at the University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre.

Margaret is currently working towards her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC, looking at mental capacity through the frameworks of law, medicine and social work (currently- but tentatively- titled “Autonomy and the Mental Capacity Threshold: Theorizing Vulnerability”). She is also, with Gregory S. Pun, the co-author of The Law of Nuisance in Canada, published in 2010. Margaret is affiliated with the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative centred at Emory University, Atlanta as an Affiliated Global Faculty Member, and is a Fellow/Research Associate with the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia at the University of British Columbia.

Margaret has published extensively in the areas of tort law and law and aging; her publications may be accessed through Margaret's SSRN author page.

Professor Hall teaches Tort Law in the first year curriculum.

Office: HL246
Email: mahall@tru.ca
Tel: 250.852.7697