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.
Jean-Paul Bevilacqua
Director
Jean-Paul Bevilacqua is the Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. He brings a distinguished record of leadership in access to justice through legal education, research, and community engagement.
Most recently, Jean-Paul served as a program leader at the Ontario Justice Education Network, where he developed programs and resources empowering young people to understand and respond to legal challenges.
Prior to this, he served as Assistant Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he led research and initiatives spanning family law services, community mediation, and collaborations with Indigenous youth. He also served as an educator in Osgoode’s mediation program and as course and clinic director.
Earlier in his career, Jean-Paul gained experience with the Court Services Division at the Ministry of the Attorney General. He is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received the Dean’s Gold Key and the Legal & Literary Society Award. His excellence in teaching was recognized with the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award in 2020, and he received the Emerging Leader Award from Victoria University at the University of Toronto in 2025.
Throughout his career, Jean-Paul has worked across academic, policy, and community settings, bringing a cross-sector perspective to CFCJ’s mandate to advance civil justice reform through evidence-based research.
Amy Choi
Research Development and Communications Coordinator
Amy Choi is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her dissertation examines how racial and gender inequalities persist within unionized bureaucracies, with a focus on the Canadian federal public service. Using a multi-method approach, her research investigates wage differentials at the intersection of race, gender, and unionization, bringing together quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how institutional and organizational structures shape inequality in the workplace.
Amy also holds a master’s degree from the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, where she developed an interdisciplinary foundation for critically examining questions of justice, criminality, law, and governance.
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.
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.