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CFCJ Senior Research Fellow Ab Currie in Rotterdam
In June 2026, Ab Currie, Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, attended the semi-annual meeting of the Working Group on the Legal Professions, held at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Working Group brings together researchers from around the world who study the legal professions and their role in justice systems.
Read NowThe Cyberjustice Laboratory: where justice processes are modeled and re-imagined.
The scope of the research being conducted by the Cyberjustice Laboratory is extensive. According to the website, there are over 33 projects underway by various researchers affiliated with the Laboratory. The Laboratory’s projects range from the development of new online dispute resolution platforms (more on this project below) to the development of a framework to assess
read nowHow lawyers resolve family law disputes
This past July I was able to sample the views of 167 lawyers and judges attending the Federation of Law Societies of Canada‘s National Family Law Program in Whistler, British Columbia through a survey designed and implemented by two prominent academics and the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family. The survey asked questions about participants’ views on
read nowPolitically smart and locally-led justice programming
We are pleased to re-post this piece by Sam Muller which originally appeared on the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) Innovating Justice Forum website on October 2, 2014. A few weeks ago I attended a fascinating meeting with this provocative title at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London. It implies that most justice programming is
read nowThe Halton Legal Health Check-Up Project is About to Go into the Field
The Legal Health Check-Up project, being developed by the Halton Community Legal Clinic, is moving out of the planning phase and into the field. Now that training for the seven intermediary partners in the use of the Check-up tool has been completed and the research instruments have been developed, the project is entering a preliminary
read nowWhen Access Isn’t Enough: Examining the Intersection Between Social Inequality and Access to Justice
In her recently published book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, sociologist Alice Goffman follows the lives of several young men living in an inner-city community in Philadelphia. Through immersive fieldwork and rich ethnographic detail she illustrates “how fear of confinement has transformed work, health, and family life, causing men to disengage
read nowConnecting Ottawa
In December 2008, the Law Foundation of Ontario tasked Karen Cohl and George Thomson with the responsibility of finding durable solutions for individuals facing linguistic and rural barriers to accessing justice. In response to their findings, a pilot project funded by the Law Foundation and Connecting Ottawa was born. I had the opportunity to intern
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