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Jennifer Leitch

Jennifer Leitch, JD, LLM, PhD is a researcher and law teacher, primarily in the area of legal ethics and professionalism, access to justice, torts and dispute processes. Her PhD dissertation at Osgoode included ethnographic research involving self-represented litigants’ experiences participating in the civil justice system. She continues to research and publish in the fields of access to justice and legal ethics. She also practiced civil litigation at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. Jennifer has been an adjunct faculty member of Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where she taught legal ethics and professionalism, legal procedure and legal research and writing as well as torts.  She is the Associate Director and an instructor in the Ethics, Society & Law Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. She is also the Director of the National Self-Represented Litigant Project.

Connor Ewing

Connor Ewing is assistant professor of Political Science and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Located in the fields of American Politics and Public Law, his research interests span American political thought and development, constitutional law and theory, federalism, rights jurisprudence, human dignity, and constitutional design. Previously he was a Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and, before that, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program on Constitutionalism & Democracy at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, AM in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. 

John Duncan

John Duncan is an associate professor and the director of the University of Toronto’s major program in Ethics, Society and Law (we say “E, S AND L”) hosted by Trinity College. ES&L enrolls seventy-five new students from more than five hundred applicants annually, and features small seminar courses, innovative programing, a focus on sustainability, and more traditional courses. Professor Duncan is also the academic director of the Ideas for the World program at Victoria College in the U of T. His interests include outreach and engagement co-learning (please see, e.g., “Humanities for Humanity”), critical issues in contemporary society, politics, and international relations (please see, e.g., “Three NATO gambles in Ukraine” and “The war that never left Afghanistan“), and the history of philosophy and the humanities (please see, e.g., Rousseau and Desire, “Sartre and Realism-All-the-Way-Down“, and “Frankenstein’s Message: Life Without Love is Monstrous“). He is involved in peace research and directs the Humanities for Humanity programs at Trinity. For more information, please see his web presence on Academia.edu.