Kathryn Chan

Kathryn Chan is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. She joined the faculty in 2013 and holds a DPhil (Law) from the University of Oxford, where she was a Trudeau Foundation scholar. Her research focuses on civil society regulation, law and religion, legal pluralism, and the public-private law divide. She has contributed to SSHRC-funded studies on religious freedom litigation, charitable foundations, and refugee adjudication.

• B.Mus. (Honours) – McGill (1999)
• J.D. – Toronto (2001)
• LL.M. (Honours) – McGill (2006)
• DPhil (Oxon) – 2014

Her awards include the CALT Scholarly Paper Award (2015) and the UVic Law Students’ Society Terry J Wuester Teaching Award (2023). She supervises graduate students in her areas of expertise and served as Acting Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (2022–2023).