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26 A U G U S T 2 0 1 8 w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m Thomas Cromwell Senior counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Vancouver/Ottawa A former Supreme Court justice, Thomas Cromwell has served as chairman of the chief justice of Canada's Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, from which he will be departing this year. He is frequently heard at confer- ences and on podcasts across Canada and he recently joined Arbitration Place. In January, he was inducted into the Order of Canada. Cromwell sat on the Supreme Court of Canada from 2008 to 2016 and on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal from 1997 to 2008. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Cromwell was executive legal officer to chief justice Antonio Lamer from 1992 to 1995. He has practised law in Toronto and Kingston, Ont., and he has taught at the Faculty of Law at Dalhousie University. While at Dalhousie, he was a labour arbitrator and vice chairman of the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board. Cromwell is the recipient of four honor- ary doctorates in law and is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and the American College of Trial Lawyers. John Borrows Professor, University of Victoria Victoria, B.C. Not only is he the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria, John Borrows was also responsible for the first-ever dual Indig- enous law degree program. He won the Killam Prize in Social Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts for his continuing work of research and appli- cation in ameliorating Indigenous rights in the legal realm. His ideas have helped form the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Com- mission of Canada and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Bor- rows is the author of two legal texts — Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law and Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials & Commentary. He helped start the June Callwood Program in Aboriginal Law at the Univer- sity of Toronto. His scholarship ranges from engagement of Indigenous legal traditions in Canada and abroad to calling out the inequalities against these communities in the justice system to the improvement of these conditions. He has also been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. THE TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL CHANGEMAKERS WHAT VOTERS HAD TO SAY: "Tom Cromwell excels at everything he does. Having had an outstanding career as an academic and jurist, he is now leading efforts meaningfully to reform access to justice in Canada. Access to justice is something that a lot of lawyers like to talk about, but Tom is trying assiduously to make it happen." WHAT VOTERS HAD TO SAY: "His thinking has become influential in many areas of the law and provides the underpinning for a legal revolution in which legal pluralism could become a reality." "Incredibly influential in my legal education thus far." "Indigenous legal academic central to the emergence of Indigenous legal orders within the country and abroad."

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