Publications

Recent Publications 

• Laverne Jacobs, "‘Humanizing’ Disability Law:  Citizen Participation in the Development of Accessibility Regulations in Canada" [2] in I. Bouhadana, W. Gilles & R. Weaver (eds.), Citizen Participation and Collaboration in Promoting Open Government (Carolina Academic Press, 2017) (forthcoming).
• Laverne Jacobs, "From Rawls to Habermas: Toward A Theory of Grounded Impartiality in Canadian Administrative Law" [3] (2014) 51(2) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 543-594.
• Laverne Jacobs, “Evaluating Ombuds Oversight in the Canadian Access to Information Context:  A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry” [4] in Jacobs & Baglay, eds., The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013) 295-324.
• Laverne Jacobs & Sasha Baglay, eds., The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives [5](Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013) 416pp.
• Laverne Jacobs,   « Contribuţii aduse studiului instituţiei Ombudsmanului: regimuri juridice polijurale şi impactul soluţionării conflictului în contextul canadian al liberului acces la informaţiile de interes public »in Dacian-Cosmin  Dragos and Bogdana Neamţu,  Instituţia Ombudsmanului: justitiţie alternativă? (Editura C.H. Beck: Bucharest (Romania), 2011) 185-212.(Romanian translation of “Building on the Ombudsman: Polyjuralism and the Impact of Dispute Resolution in the Canadian Access to Information Context”).
• Laverne Jacobs, "Caught between Judicial Paradigms and the Administrative State’s Pastiche: ‘Tribunal’ Independence, Impartiality, and Bias" in Administrative Law in Context , 2nd edition, Colleen M. Flood & Lorne Sossin eds. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2012) 233-278. 

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Select Media Commentary

Op-eds

• "Tribunaux Administratifs Fédéraux:  Une Réforme Bienvenue" [7], Le Devoir, June 29, 2016 (with R. Ellis, G. Heckman, F. Houle, D. Mullan et al.). 
• "Attitudes need an update, too", Windsor Star, March 31, 2014.

Notable Cases

• Ontario (Energy Board) v. Ontario Power Generation Inc., 2015 SCC 44 [8]

• Smith v. Alliance Pipeline Ltd., 2011 SCC 7 [9]

• Canada (Attorney General) v. Quadrini, 2010 FCA 246 (CanLII) [10]

• Commission des transports du Québec c. Villeneuve, 2009 QCCA 1558 [11]

•  Halifax (Regional Municipality) v. Nova Scotia (Human Rights Commission) [2008] NSCA 21 [12]

•   [13]United Food and Commercial W [13]orkers International Union Canada v. Rol-Land Farms Limited [13], 2008 CanLII 6652 (Ont. Sup.Ct.Div.Ct.)

• ICASA v. Radio Mafisa, (decision of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, 2007) [14]

•  Graham v. Workers Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut 2007 NWTSC 54 [15]

• St [16]ephens v. Lynx Industries Inc., 2006 HRTO 31 [16]

• Alberta Liquor Store Association v. Alberta (Gaming and Liquor Commission), 2006 ABQB 904 (CanLII) [17]
• Ontario (Children’s Lawyer) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner) (2005) 196 O.A.C. 350, 2005 CanLII 11786 (ON C.A.) [18]