About the authors

• Author: Lesley A. Jacobs
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Les Jacobs is professor of law and society and political science, and director

of the Institute for Social Research at York University. He is also execu-

tive director of the Canadian Foru m on Civil Justice, the country’s leading

pan-Canadian t hink tank devoted to access-to-justice issues, housed at

Osgoode Hall Law School. He has held a range of distingu ished visiting

appointments at other universities, including Harvard Law School; the

Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies; the Law Commission of Canada;

the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Toronto; Emory

University; and Waseda Law School, Tokyo. His many other books include

Rights and Deprivation (199 3); e Democ ratic Politics of Vision (1997); Pur-

suing Equal Opportunities (20 04); Balancing Competing Human Rights in

a Diverse Society (2012); and Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New

Policy Space in Hard Economic Times (2014) .

Nachshon Goltz is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Law at Os-

goode Hall Law School at York University.

Matthew McManus is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Socio-

Legal Studies at York University.