Brian Bird

Brian Bird is a Lecturer at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. He holds degrees from McGill University (DCL), the University of Oxford (BCL), the University of Victoria (JD), and Simon Fraser University (BA). His research focuses on constitutional law and theory, legal history, and public law, with a particular emphasis on bills of rights and interactions between courts and legislatures. Bird previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University (2019–2020), and as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

His academic work has been published in leading journals such as the Alberta Law Review, Supreme Court Law Review, and Cambridge Law Review. He has co-edited three books with LexisNexis Canada, including The Forgotten Fundamental Freedoms of the Charter (2020) and Rights, Freedoms, and Their Limits (2023). Bird frequently contributes to public debates on constitutional issues, particularly regarding euthanasia and religious freedom in healthcare contexts, through media outlets like the National Post and Globe and Mail.