Toby Susan Goldbach

Toby Susan Goldbach is an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She holds a BA from McGill, JD, LLM in ADR from Osgoode Hall Law School, and an LLM and JSD from Cornell. Her research focuses on the intersection of legal procedure, law and development, and legal anthropology.

• Education: BA (McGill), JD (Osgoode), LLM in ADR (Osgoode), LLM, JSD (Cornell)

Dr. Goldbach’s work examines transnational norms in court procedure and dispute resolution, informed by field research at institutions like the World Bank’s Law and Justice Reform Week and the Supreme Court of Israel. Her current research spans commercial courts in Ghana and U.S. District Court settlement procedures.

Notable awards include the UBC Green College Leading Scholar designation (2018-2020) and the Rudolf B. Schlesinger Research Fellowship at Cornell. She is co-chair of the Law and Society Association’s Collaborative Research Network on Innovations in Judging.

• Scientific Awards: UBC Green College Leading Scholar, Rudolf B. Schlesinger Fellow

Dr. Goldbach contributes to debates on Indigenous legal representation in Canadian judiciary and advocates for integrating Indigenous legal orders into mainstream legal systems. She is affiliated with the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies and has participated in global legal reform initiatives.