W. Wesley Pue Memorial Scholarship in Law

Award descriptionScholarships totalling $2,000 have been made available annually through gifts from friends and family in memory of W. Wesley "Wes" Pue (1954-2019), for outstanding LL.M. and Ph.D. students conducting law and society research. Preference will be given to students focusing on legal history. Wes (B.A., B.A. (Juris), LL.M., Ph.D.) was born in Edmonton, Alberta and earned undergraduate degrees in Geography and Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, where he was the stroke of the Regent's Park College rowing team. He returned to Canada in 1979 to complete his LL.M. at the University of Alberta and Ph.D at Osgoode Hall Law School. Wes joined UBC in 1993 as the Nathan T. Nemetz Chair in Legal History, and taught courses in legal history and administrative law. His research interests included the history of the legal profession, law in colonial settings, and the rule of Law. Wes received the Killam Teaching Prize in 2003 for excellence in graduate teaching. He held several senior administrative positions at UBC, including Provost of UBC Okanagan, and Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic Resources of UBC Vancouver. The scholarships are made on the recommendation of the Peter A. Allard School of Law, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.