Vice President Research and Innovation, Ontario Tech University
Les Jacobs, PhD, FRSC, is Vice-President for Research and Innovation at Ontario Tech University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), the highest honor for a Canadian academic researcher, appointed in 2017 in recognition of being one of the world's leading experts on innovative large scale projects on human rights, equality and access to justice involving data science. He holds a Visiting Fellowship at Trinity College, University of Oxford, for 2025.
Before joining Ontario Tech in 2019, he held the Tier 1 Research Chair in Human Rights and Access to Justice and served as Director of the Institute for Social Research at York University. Previously, he held faculty positions at the University of British Columbia and Oxford's Magdalen College
His books, in collaboration with others, include Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice (SpringerNature, 2024); Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India (UBC Press, 2023); The Justice Crisis (UBC Press, 2020); Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance (UBC Press, 2018); Racial Profiling and Human Rights (Irwin Law Books, 2018); Linking Global Trade and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Privacy Rights in the Global Digital Economy (Irwin Law Books, 2014); Balancing Competing Human Rights in a Diverse Society (Irwin Law Books, 2012); Pursuing Equal Opportunities (Cambridge University Press, 2004); The Democratic Vision of Politics (Simon & Schuster/Pearson, 1997); and Rights and Deprivation (Oxford University Press, 1993).
See also https://research.ontariotechu.ca/discover-research/vice-president,-research-innovation-les-jacobs.php.
Contact Information
Email: Les.Jacobs@ontariotechu.ca
