Dr. Brenna Bhandar

Biography

Brenna Bhandar is a Professor at the Peter Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Toronto, an LLB from UBC, and a PhD from the University of London. Prior to joining the law faculty in 2021, she was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and has held faculty positions at Queen Mary School of Law and Kent Law School, as well as the University of Reading Law School. She has also been in visiting appointments at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law in South Africa. Professor Bhandar's research and teaching are centered in property law, critical theory, colonial legal history, and critical race feminism. She authored and edited four volumes, including 'Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership' published in 2018 by Duke University Press and co-authored 'Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought' in 2020 with Rafeef Ziadah. Her work has been translated into multiple languages. Bhandar is a research associate at the Centre for Palestine Studies and a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective. She is committed to supervising doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the fields of property, critical theory, race, geography, and colonialism.

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