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Staff

Trevor C.W. Farrow, PhD

Chair of the Board

Trevor C.W. Farrow, AB (Princeton), BA/MA (Oxford), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Alberta), is the Dean at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is also the former Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution. Dean Farrow’s teaching and research focus on the administration of civil justice, including legal process, legal and judicial ethics, advocacy, globalization and development. He was formerly a litigation lawyer at the Torys law firm in Toronto. Dean Farrow has received teaching awards at Harvard University and Osgoode Hall Law School.


Lisa Moore

Director


Nicole Aylwin, MA, ABD

Senior Research Fellow

Nicole Aylwin is the former Assistant Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School, a justice innovation hub dedicated to improving access to justice and the former Assistant Director of Research at Osgoode Hall. Nicole is also the former Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and currently works as a Research Fellow and Management Consultant at the Forum. She speaks and writes on the topics of innovation in the justice sector, civil justice reform and access to justice. She has taught at York University, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her areas of research include social innovation and access to justice, access to justice in Indigenous communities, cultural rights, cultural divesity and policy making.


Ab Currie, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Ab Currie holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. He has been conducting policy research on legal aid and other access to justice issues for more than 25 years and has authored about 50 reports, articles and book chapters on access to justice topics. He carried out extensive research on unmet needs for legal aid. He has also conducted extensive research on the incidence and patterns of justiciable problems and on unmet need for access to justice services in civil matters.


Lesley Jacobs, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Lesley Jacobs is a Professor of Law & Society and Political Science at York University in Toronto, a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and Co-Director of the SSHRC funded Cost of Justice project. He completed his BA and MA at the University of Western Ontario and his D.Phil. in Politics at Oxford University. He has held a range of distinguished visiting appointment at other universities including the Harvard Law School, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Law Commission of Canada, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Emory University, and Waseda Law School in Tokyo. His research interests include comparative public; empirical social-legal research; courts and social policy; health and human rights; intersections between international human rights and trade law; and theoretical work on social justice.


Jennifer Leitch, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Jennifer Leitch BA (Dalhousie University), JD (Schulich School of Law), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School), PhD (Osgoode Hall Law School) is an adjunct professor at University of Toronto Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School. She was formerly a litigation lawyer at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. Jennifer’s research focuses on access to justice, democracy and self-represented litigants.


Malcolm M. Mercer

Senior Research Fellow

Malcolm M. Mercer is the former Treasurer (President) of the Law Society of Ontario.  Mr. Mercer has practised law for more than 30 years and is a retired partner with McCarthy Tétrault (Toronto).


Research Assistants

Student Research Assistants

The CFCJ provides research assistant opportunities for students from the Osgoode Hall Law School community. Our research assistants contribute to CFCJ projects and activities in various ways throughout the year.