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
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
Education
- MA, Political Science Western University in London, Ontario
- PhD, Politics Oxford University in Oxford, U.K.
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)
Involvement
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Books
Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan Vertinsky. Global Health Security in China, Japan and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals (University of British Columbia Press, January 20, 2023).
The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law (co-edited with Trevor Farrow, the University of British Columbia Press, 2020).
Racial Profiling and Human Rights in Canada: the new legal landscape (Irwin Law Books, 2018).
Grey Zones of International Economic Law and Global Governance (University of British Columbia Press, 2018).
Privacy Rights in the Global Digital Economy: Legal Problems and Canadian Paths to Justice (Irwin Law Books, 2014).
Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Balancing Competing Human Rights in a Diverse Society (Irwin Law Books, 2012).
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2004; ebook in 2012; new Chinese translation in 2018).
The Democratic Vision of Politics (Simon & Schuster, 1997; Chinese translation in 1999).
Rights and Deprivation (Oxford University Press, 1993, ebook edition 2012).
Out of Apathy (Verso Books, 1989).
