Media
Laverne Jacobs: "How municipal decision-makers can better consult with people with disabilities"
Windsor and the Post Pandemic Healthy City: A Community Conversation
June 26, 2020
SNC-Lavalin & the need for fresh thinking around independence and interference
The latest medical assistance in dying decision needs to be appealed: Here’s why
Biography
Laverne Jacobs is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law. Her research explores the intersections between administrative law and justice, the lived experiences of people with disabilities, and human rights law. She is a Fulbright Scholar, has received several awards for her research and scholarship, as well as SSHRC, CIHR, and other research grants. Her research uses interdisciplinary approaches and traditional legal analysis. Through her work, she seeks to foster inclusion through legal and social change.
Jacobs is the Founding Director of the Law, Disability & Social Change (LDSC) Project (https://lawdisabilitysocialchange.com/about/), which is housed at Windsor Law. The LDSC Project team conducts research into current legal and policy issues to help empower people with disabilities to fully achieve their rights and, more generally, to foster and develop inclusive communities. The project focuses on listening to, incorporating, and respecting the voices of people with disabilities, and aims to further the motto “nothing about us without us”. The LDSC Project team undertakes a variety of projects that feed grounded resealarrch and theory into policy development and legal decision-making.