David Eby
President

David Eby joined the Legal Network’s board of directors in 2007.

David Eby is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, one of Canada’s most active human and democratic rights organizations. An adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia and Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, David is also legal affairs columnist for 24 Hours newspaper in Vancouver and is an internationally published author.

David was ranked #48 in Vancouver Magazine’s 2009 “Power 50” list, and focuses his work on reforming public policy that disproportionately impacts poor, homeless, addicted and otherwise marginalized people.

His reports and advocacy have contributed to major shifts in government policy related to homelessness, provincial housing and police accountability, including an end to the system of police self-investigation in B.C. and the purchase by the Province of B.C. of hundreds of units of privately owned low-income rental housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

A graduate of the Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, David was called to the British Columbia bar in 2005.