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Brenna Bhandar is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, specializing in property law, critical theory, colonial legal history, and critical race feminism. Previously, she was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and held faculty positions at Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School, and the University of Reading Law School. She has also held visiting appointments at L'École des hautes études en science sociales (Paris) and Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (South Africa).
- BA (Hons.) in South Asian Studies and History from University of Toronto (1996)
- LLB from UBC (1999)
- PhD from Birkbeck School of Law, University of London (2007)
Professor Bhandar's research focuses on the intersections of property law, critical theory, race, gender, and colonialism. Her work examines how property laws and processes of racialization are intertwined within colonial and post-colonial contexts. She is particularly interested in the historical and contemporary effects of dispossession on society, especially on marginalized communities. Her research spans theoretical, transdisciplinary, and historically situated approaches to understanding law's role in shaping racial and gender formations.
Her publications reveal a consistent focus on property as a central mechanism for understanding colonialism, racial capitalism, and dispossession. The articles demonstrate increasing attention to contemporary issues like housing markets, neoliberal legal transformations, and Palestine solidarity, while maintaining deep engagement with foundational questions about property, race, and law. Her work spans multiple disciplines including law, political theory, postcolonial studies, and critical race studies.
Professor Bhandar is actively involved in supervising doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working in areas related to property, critical theory, race, geography, and colonialism. She has received funding from Allard Law Faculty and the Independent Social Research Foundation (Europe) for her research projects.
She currently leads research projects on residential housing markets in the UK context, the doctrine of preemption in British Columbia, and is organizing a workshop on 'Dispossession and the Commons' with scholars from Europe, the UK, and the US. She serves on the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and is a research associate at the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London.
