![]() ![]() It focuses on the condominium statute in British Columbia-the Strata Property Act-and on the manner in which it combines private property and co-ownership of common property with a governing body to oversee the uses of the interests in land that it creates. This course provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of and to analyze statutory condominium as a legal framework for owning interests in land and governing uses of that land. In short, condominium is becoming the dominant architecture of land ownership, particularly residential land ownership, and understanding what it means to hold a property interest in land in the 21 st century requires an understanding of ownership within condominium. Outside urban centres, condominium is used not only to subdivide ownership within buildings, but also to create separate lots within private residential communities. In Vancouver, one-third of residents live within condominium, either as owners or renters, and the number of homeowner-households who live within condominium is on track to surpass those within single-family residences. LAW231 Property Law Syllabus 2020-2021 (PDF)Ĭondominium is rapidly becoming the dominant form of residential land ownership for city dwellers in Canada and much of the rest of the world. Professor Harris is currently supervising LLM and PhD students working in property law, Aboriginal law and legal history, and welcomes other students to apply in these and other areas of his research interest. He is also a co-author of the leading property law casebook in Canada, A Property Law Reader, 4th Ed. In 2013, Professor Harris received the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, the Faculty's annual teaching award. In 2016, he received the law school’s Faculty Scholar Award. Harris served as Associate Dean Graduate Studies & Research in the Law School, 2008-2013, and he is currently Chair of the UBC Press Publications Board. ![]() During his years as a university student, Harris was a member of Canada's field hockey team that competed at the Olympic Games in Seoul (1988), the Pan American Games (1987, 1991, 1995), and the World Student Games (1991). (UBC) and PhD (Osgoode Hall, York University) degrees in legal history. ![]() (Toronto), Harris articled in Vancouver and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1994. Recent public lectures include “ Condominium & the Country: The Sprawl of Property in British Columbia” and “ Property & Sovereignty: The Kitsilano Indian Reserve and the City of Vancouver”. He presented “ Condominium Property Stories” in his Inaugural Lecture as a professor at the Allard School of Law.Īfter completing his B.A. His earlier published work includes studies of Aboriginal rights to fish in Canada and analysis of systems for registering interests in land. He teaches in the areas of property law and legal history, and his research focuses on the history of the regulation of the Aboriginal fisheries in British Columbia and on the nature of property ownership within condominium. Douglas Harris joined the Allard School of Law in 2001. ![]()
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