Dr. Toby Goldbach

Biography

Toby Goldbach joined the Peter Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in 2017 after a two-year teaching fellowship at Cornell University Law School. He has been recognized as a UBC Green College Leading Scholar from 2018 to 2020 and co-chaired the Law Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Innovations Judging. Goldbach possesses a JD and an LLM specializing in Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School, and he earned his doctorate at Cornell Law School, where he was a Rudolf B. Schlesinger Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Law at Tel Aviv University. His research interests intersect with legal procedure, law development, and legal anthropology, focusing on the transnational movement of norms related to court procedure and dispute resolution. He has served as a Senior Law Clerk to Chief Justice Patrick LeSage of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario and has worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario), specifically within the Civil Justice Policy Reform branch. His writing has been informed by research conducted through the World Bank’s Law, Justice Development Week, and he has participated in various international meetings and conferences. Goldbach’s research has been published in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Cornell International Law Journal, and the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. His current research examines norms related to commercial courts and court-connected mediation in Ghana, as well as fairness hearing procedures in class action settlements and mass tort civil actions.

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