Brian Bird is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's Allard School of Law. He is also a research fellow with the North America Action Team at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington D.C. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He also previously clerked for judges of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and for the Hon. Justice Andromache Karakatsanis at the Supreme Court of Canada. He completed his doctorate at McGill University and holds degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of Victoria, and Simon Fraser University.