Lesley A. Jacobs

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 executive director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, the country’s leading pan-Canadian think tank devoted to access-to-justice issues, housed at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has held a range of distinguished 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 (1993); The Democratic Politics of Vision (1997); Pursuing Equal Opportunities (2004); Balancing Competing Human Rights in a Diverse Society (2012); and Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times (2014).

Books by Lesley A. Jacobs

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India

The Justice Crisis

Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance

Racial Profiling and Human Rights in Canada

Privacy Rights in the Global Digital Economy

14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society