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Our Team
John Kleefeld
John Kleefeld
Founder & Director
University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law
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John Kleefeld is Professor and former Dean of Law at the University of New Brunswick. He previously taught at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving the 2012 Provost’s Award for Outstanding Innovation in Learning and the 2015 Brightspace/STLHE Innovation Award in Teaching & Learning. Before that, he was at the University of British Columbia, where he directed the Legal Research & Writing Program. He is the founding director of the Legal Citation Lab, which, among other things, aims to track all judicial citations to Donoghue v Stevenson, the case that heralded modern negligence law in much of the common-law world.
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Paul Warchuk
Lab Member
University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law
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Paul Warchuk
Paul Warchuk is an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches constitutional and administrative law. His research examines the judiciary, focusing on its structure, decision-making processes, and relationship with administrative bodies. Warchuk completed a PhD on the emergence of judicial review by writ of certiorari in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. His current work focuses on empirical analysis of judicial decisions and what it can reveal about judicial decision-making.
Students
Chloe Jardine, (Research Assistant, UNB Law, 2022)
Matthew Chambers (Research Assistant, UNB Law, 2023)
Janelle Peterson (Research Assistant, UNB Law, 2024)
Rena Berriault (Research Assistant, UNB Law 2025)
Other contributors
Donoghue v Stevenson Contributors:
José Gabriel Farraz (FSG Advogados, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil—Brazilian cases)
Filipe Araujo Pedra (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil— Brazilian cases)
Tamar Gidron (Israeli cases)
Uri Volovelsky (Israeli cases)
Last updated: 2025/07/18
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