Buffy Scholar/Critic

Sharon Sutherland is Clinical Instructor in Dispute Resolution at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Sharon's primary teaching subjects are mediation, negotiation and advocacy. She also teaches a first year course in Law and Dystopia. Sharon is conducting research into court-based and private mediation in BC, but her pre-law academic background in theatre demands occasional forays into the field of law and popular culture.

 

Sutherland, Sharon and Sarah Swan. If a Vampire Bites a Lawyer, Is It Cannibalism? The Demonization of Lawyers in Angel (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004)