Barry Dong Memorial Award in Law

For domestic J.D. students at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law in good academic standing who have demonstrated an interest in labour, employment, and/or human rights law and have demonstrated financial need.

Awards made available through an endowment established by friends, family, and colleagues, along with matching funds from the Carpentry Employers Association of BC and Harris & Company LLP, in memory of Barry You Fay Dong (1954-2021). The awards are made on the recommendation of the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Apply through the entrance student awards application.

Barry (B.A. 1976, LL.B. 1979) was born in Hong Kong and immigrated with his family to Port Alice, British Columbia in 1956. In a forty-year career he was a leader in labour, employment, human rights, and administrative law, and a partner at Harris & Company LLP. In 2018 he was appointed by the Minister of Labour to the Review Panel for the British Columbia Labour Relations Code.