I am working on two SSHRC grants.  First, I am examining the "micro-politics" of justice, involving intensive field research into major Supreme Court cases in labour and employment.  I am most interested in how individuals find their way to the Supreme Court.  What convergence of factors is necessary before a litigant can sustain such a legal battle?

Second, I am examining whether the personality of adjudicators can explain time delay in justice.  With particular focus on labour arbitrators, I am working with Dr. Piers Steel and Dr. Allen Ponak to gather information on thousands of Canadian labour arbitration cases and triangulating the time delay gathered from a content analysis with a web-based survey of the arbitrators themselves.  We have over a 70% response rate and are poised to write up our findings.