Board of Directors

Doreen Barrie is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Calgary. She authored The Other Alberta: Decoding a Political Enigma and wrote a biography on Ralph Klein for the book Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century.  She did the study on Party Financing in Alberta for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing and has written Sacred Trust or Political Football: A Citizen’s Guide to Canadian Health Care. She was the first Canadian President of the Western Social Science Association.

Salimah F. Janmohamed is a lawyer operating a law practice under the banner of SFJ Law, focusing on corporate, banking, real estate and litigation matters.  Prior to starting her own practice, Salimah was an associate with Macleod Dixon LLP (the predecessor to Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP) and a member of the Banking Group.  In addition to serving on the ACLRC Board, Salimah also serves on the Board of Sport Calgary, as the chair for governance affairs.  Salimah has previously served on the Board of Mount Royal University Foundation and as the member for legal affairs on the Ismaili Council for the Prairies. Salimah also volunteers with the Regional Conciliation and Arbitration Board for the Prairies, which provides free dispute resolution and mediation services in her community, and with Student Legal Assistance as a resource lawyer.

Michael Greene, Q.C.  is a born and raised Albertan who practises law with Sherritt Greene Immigration Lawyers in Calgary and instructs Immigration and Refugee Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. Michael is a past National Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship & Immigration Section and former President of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association. He received the 1995 Suzanne Mah Award from the Alberta Human Rights Commission for “exemplary human rights, principles and ideals in the practice of law”.

Patricia Paradis is the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta where she manages the Centre’s public legal education and research mandates. She has been a sessional lecturer in Human Rights Law in the faculty since 1996 and gives public lectures on human rights and constitutional matters.  Patricia has served on a number of Boards, notably the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund Board where she served as National Chair.

Professor Evaristus (Evar) Oshionebo joined the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law in 2013. He won the Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, University of Calgary in 2014. The award honours faculty members and instructors for their commitment to student success. In 2017, Oshionebo was awarded the ‘GREAT Supervisor Award’ by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary.

Prior to joining the University of Calgary, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. In 2013, he won the University of Manitoba/University of Manitoba Faculty Association Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Students’ Teacher Recognition Award for outstanding teaching.

Oshionebo’s research focuses primarily on the law and policy governing extraction and mining of natural resources. His book, Mineral Mining in Africa: Legal and Fiscal Regimes (London: Routledge, 2021) engages in a comparative analysis of the legal and fiscal frameworks for hard rock mining in several African countries. His earlier book, Regulating Transnational Corporations in Domestic and International Regimes: An African Case Study (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009) examines the range of strategies for regulating transnational corporations in Africa’s extractive industries. He has also written and published several articles on sustainable extraction of natural resources as well as the relationship between extractive companies and host communities.

In addition to his work on natural resources, Oshionebo researches and publishes on corporate responsibility, corporate governance, regulation of transnational corporations, sustainable development, international investment law, and intellectual property law.

ACLRC’s longstanding Board Chair, the late Dr Edwin Webking, served on the Board from 1984 to 2013. He made several contributions to Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Canada, Alberta and his hometown of Lethbridge. It is an honour to have known him. Click here to read more about his legacy.