The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives

About Laverne JacobsSasha Baglay

Laverne Jacobs is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds law degrees in Common Law and Civil Law from McGill University and a doctorate from Osgoode Hall Law School. Upon graduating from McGill she clerked for Justice Brian Malone at the Federal Court of Appeal. Dr. Jacobs is widely published in the area of administrative law. Her scholarship aims to bridge the gap between public law jurisprudence and public law realities through empirical inquiry. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research and uses qualitative empirical research methods from the social sciences. Dr. Jacobs primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of domestic and comparative administrative law freedom of information human rights and empirical research methodology. Sasha Baglay (LLM Dalhousie; DJur Osgoode Hall) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her area of research and teaching lies in immigration and refugee law and policy. She has widely presented on the issues of Canadian and comparative immigration and refugee law and has co-authored a book on Canadian refugee law (Refugee Law Irwin Law Book 2007). She is the past President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS).