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Les Jacobs
PhD, FRSC

Professor

Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Contact information

Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (ERC) - Room 2062
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668 ext. 3267

Les.jacobs@ontariotechu.ca


Research topics

  • Data science applications in comparative public policy and law in Canada, USA, China, and other countries on the Asia Pacific Rim
  • Equal Opportunity and Human Rights
  • Racial Profiling and Race-data Collection
  • Social-legal research methods
  • Courts and social policy
  • Intersections between international human rights law and international economic law
  • Global health and human rights
  • Theoretical work on social justice

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Researcher profile

Research and expertise

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Tier 1 York Research Chair in Human Rights and Access to Justice
  • Senior Visiting Fellow in Law, European University Institute, Florence (2018)
  • Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Canada-United States Relations, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington (2016)
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor of Transnational Law, Waseda University Law School, Tokyo (2010)
  • Visitng Research Fellow, Institute of Human Rights, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta (2010)
  • Liberal Arts Fellow, Harvard Law School, Cambridge (1997-98)
  • Wolfson Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford (1994)
  • Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (1993)