Catherine Dauvergne, K.C.

Formerly Dean of Law at the University of British Columbia and Vice-President, Academic and Provost of Simon Fraser University, Catherine Dauvergne joins Hunter Litigation after twenty-five years in the Canadian and Australian legal academies. Her scholarship spans diverse areas of domestic and international public law, and she is an internationally leading author in refugee and immigration law. Author, editor and co-author of eight legal texts and over 75 law review articles, Catherine remains a professor at UBC’s School of Law where she is teaches Canadian Constitutional Law, Transnational Law, and Immigration and Refugee Law.

Catherine became a practicing member of the Law Society of BC in 2008 and has regularly represented clients in immigration and refugee matters. For more than a decade, she served as a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees’ Litigation Committee. She has appeared as counsel before the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Catherine is currently the Chair of Canada’s Court Challenges Program Human Rights Expert Panel. In 2025, she completed the Flourishing report, a research project sponsored by the Law Foundation of BC and the Ministry of the Attorney General making recommendations aimed at strengthening public legal education in the province of BC. She is also a former chair of the Council of Canadian Law Deans.

Catherine’s work has been recognized with awards for teaching, for research, and for community service.

Catherine provides counsel to the lawyers and clients of the firm on public law matters.