Faculty Advisors
Dr. Robert Chambers
Professor and Department Chair
BEd, LLB (Alberta), DPhil (Oxford)
Dr. Chambers practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Alberta before obtaining his DPhil from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Peter Birks. He has been a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne and a professor at the University of Alberta, King’s College London, and University College London.
Dr. Chambers’ main research and teaching interests are property, restitution, trusts, and unjust enrichment. He is the author of Resulting Trusts (Oxford 1997), An Introduction to Property Law in Australia (4th edn, Sydney 2019), and The Law of Property (Toronto 2021), a co-author of Oosterhoff on Trusts (9th edn, Toronto 2019), and a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Equity (Sydney) and Trust Law International (London).
Dr. Chambers teaches Property, Trusts, and Conflict of Laws.
Mark Mancini
Assistant Professor
JD (UNB), LLM (Chicago)
Mark Mancini is an Assistant Professor at Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law. He holds a J.D. from the University of New Brunswick, a LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School and is currently a PhD candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Mark clerked for Justice Ann-Marie McDonald at the Federal Court in 2017-18 His research interests include administrative law, the law of judicial review and legislative interpretation. His work has been published in academic journals across Canada and has been cited in courts across the country including the Federal Court of Appeal, British Columbia Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Mark is a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Research Fellow with the University of British Columbia-Okanagan Centre for Constitutional Studies and is also involved with the BC Council of Administrative Tribunals. In addition to his research work, Mark is a frequent speaker and contributor to academic conferences and events for lawyers and judges. In service to the profession, Mark writes a weekly newsletter, The Sunday Evening Administrative Review, which is read by close to 1500 lawyers, students, and judges.