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One Law for All? An Introduction

From: One Law for All?

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The editors review the career of professor Adell and the significance of Weber v Ontario, and preview the essays in the volume.

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Contributors

Elizabeth Shilton

Elizabeth Shilton is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at Queen’s, and a McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Toronto, as well as law degrees from Dalhousie (Schulich) and Harvard. She was a founding partner of Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP, a Toronto-based law firm specializing in union-side labour law. She has taught labour, employment, collective bargaining law and workplace human rights law as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall (York University) and Queen’s University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Osgoode’s Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. She also sat for a number of years as a member and Vice-Chair of Ontario’s Financial Services Tribunal/Commission. Her current research focuses on gender and work, pension reform and workplace dispute resolution. Her most recent book is Empty Promises: Why Workplace Pension Law Doesn’t Deliver Pensions (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).

Karen Schucher

Karen Schucher is a Professor at Humber College, where she teaches in the Paralegal Degree and Diploma programmes. She holds a PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School, authoring a dissertation which focuses on the history of human rights code enforcement in Ontario. Prior to entering academic life, she was a partner in the Toronto law firm of Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP, where she practiced labour and human rights law and headed up the firm’s research group. Karen has published widely in areas related to workplace human rights and labour arbitration in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Supreme Court Law Review.