Acknowledgments

• Author: Lesley A. Jacobs
• Pages: 9-10

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#acknowledgments

is book has its origins in t wo distinct research projects I car ried out while

serving as director of the York Centre for Public Policy and Law (YCPPL),

a research centre housed jointly at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Fac-

ulty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University. One project,

funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

(SSHRC) as part of the SSHRC President’s Initiative on Research on the

Digital Economy, focused on mapping the complex privacy protection land-

scape in Canada. e other project, funded by the Oce of the Privacy

Commissioner of Canada, was a detai led study of the legal consciousness of

certain marginalized groups in Canada with regard to their privacy rights

mobilization. e original empirical legal studies ndings, as well as the

policy research presented in this book, stem from the combination of these

two projec ts.

e broader framing of this project as one about legal problems and

access to justice stems from two other SSHRC projects in which I remain

immersed. One is the ongoing SSHRC Asia Pacic Dispute Resolution

Project, a major collaborative research initiative (MCRI) housed original-

ly at the Institute for Asian Research but now at the Faculty of Law at the

University of British Columbia. For a decade now, I have led the Canada

Team of Researchers on that project. e project has profoundly shaped

how I see legal consciousness research as a component of dispute resolu-

tion and of addressing legal problems. I am especially grateful to Pitman

Potter, Ilan Vertinsky, Sarah Biddulph, and Ljiljana Biukovic for their end-

less engagement and long-time friendship. e other project is e Cost

of Justice: Weighing the Costs of Fair and Eective Resolution to Legal

Problems, conducted by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) and