Resilient LLP (formerly DeMarco Allan LLP)

Email: daniel@resilientllp.com
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DT Vollmer

Associate

PROFILE

Daniel Vollmer is an associate at Resilient LLP, providing strong support for Resilient’s climate change law, carbon trading and Indigenous rights practice. His work encompasses assisting on energy and climate regulatory matters, energy storage procurement, project finance, Indigenous rights, and climate-related financial disclosures. Daniel’s experience includes advising on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), the duty to consult and accommodate, as well as ESG-I matters and policy. He has represented clients before administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Energy Board.

Daniel holds a Doctor of Laws degree in public international human rights law and a Bachelor of Laws degree, both from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with concentrations in international law and conflict resolution from the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. While at Denver, he was a NCAA Division I swimmer, an Academic Team All-American (2007-2009), and four-year varsity letter winner.

Daniel presented his doctoral research on advancing international and regional human rights in Africa at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University in the UK. He also interned at the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, conducting research on human rights violations by extractive industries across Africa, Europe, and the Americas. In his final year of law school, Daniel provided legal aid through the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, assisting communities in South Africa’s Cape Winelands region.

Daniel previously served as the Public Affairs Liaison for the Ontario Bar Association’s Natural Resources and Energy Law Section and as a member of the executive of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Alliance Section.

 

BAR ADMISSIONS​

​Ontario, 2020

EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Laws (LLD) – Stellenbosch University, 2017.

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) – Stellenbosch University, 2013.

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Studies – Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, 2010.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS​

  • DeMarco, L., Sullivan, K. and MacDonald, S. (2023) “The Missing Article: How to Get Canada Back in the Game on Article 6”. Public Policy Forum (Full Article).
  • Vollmer, D. et al. (2022) “Global perspectives of Africa: Harnessing the Universal Periodic Review to process sexual and gender-based violence in SADC member states”. Stellenbosch Law Review (Volume 33, Issue 1) (Full Article).

  • DeMarco, L., McGillivray, J. and Vollmer, D. (2020) “The New World of Climate Change and ESG Disclosure”. Energy Regulation Quarterly (Volume 8, Issue 4) (Full Article).

  • DeMarco, L. and Vollmer, D. (2020) “The Good Fight”. IETA 2020 GHG Report (Full Report).

  • Vollmer, D. (2019) “Reflections of an intern: Awaiting landmark decision in UK Supreme Court case on parent company liability”. International Bar Association.

  • Vollmer, D. (2017) “Queer families: An analysis of non-heteronormative family rights under the African human rights system”. Stellenbosch University.

 

SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Vollmer, D. (2024) Guest Lecturer: “Climate Change and Mining”. Special Topics in Mining Law, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
  • Vollmer, D. (2023) Lecturer: “Connecting Climate to Corporate ESG Strategy”. Osgoode Certificate in ESG, Climate Risk & the Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.
  • Vollmer, D. (2023) Guest Lecturer: “The Legal Implications of Climate Change and Trading Emissions Credits”. Climate Change and Legal Change, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  • Vollmer, D. (2022) Lecturer: “Corporate ESG Specific to Climate”. Osgoode Certificate in ESG, Climate Risk & the Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

  • Vollmer, D. (2021) Lecturer: “Corporate ESG Specific to Climate”. Osgoode Certificate in ESG, Climate Risk & the Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.

  • Vollmer, D. (2021) Co-Speaker: “Global Perspectives of Africa: Harnessing the Universal Periodic Review to process SGBV in SADC member states”. International Conference: The Responsiveness of the African human rights system to sexual and gender based violence, hosted by Stellenbosch University and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Stellenbosch, South Africa.