Jamie Baxter is a young lawyer and a researcher in the fields of civil and administrative justice reform, land tenure and economic development, empirical legal studies and the relationship between access to justice and health. He recently completed his articles with Zbogar Advocate in Toronto, specializing in human rights law and state accountability. Jamie is currently a Law Clerk at the Federal Court of Canada in Ottawa.
Previous Work Experience
• Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto
• Student at Law, Zbogar Advocate (2010-2011)
• Lecturer, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Guelph (2010)
• Researcher, Environmental and Land Tribunals Ontario (2010)
Achievements
• Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2006-2007)
• Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Research Fellow (2007)
• Senior Editorial Board, Indigenous Law Journal (2008-2010)
• Published a number of book chapters, articles and reports including: ‘The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project: A Comparative Analysis of the 2009 Survey Data’ in Michael Trebilcock, Tony Duggan and Lorne Sossin, Middle Income Access to Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming) (with Michael Trebilcock and Albert Yoon); ‘The Geography of Legal Services in Ontario’ (Toronto: The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project, 2011) (with Albert Yoon); ‘Ontario’s Administrative Tribunal Clusters: A Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty for Administrative Justice?’ Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (forthcoming) (with Lorne Sossin).
Education
• BArtsSc, McMaster University (2005)
• MA, McMaster University (2006)
• JD, University of Toronto (2010)
Called to Ontario Bar
• 2011
