BA, MA (McMaster University), PhD (University of Toronto), LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School), of the Bars of Ontario and Alberta

Dr. Hughes is the Executive Director of the Law Commission of Ontario which has its official home at Osgoode Hall Law School.  Upon her call to the Bar of Ontario, she joined the Policy Development Division of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General where she focused on Charter compliance.  She subsequently served as a vice-chair with the Ontario Labour Relations Board and as Alternate Chair to the Ontario Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal.  She taught for nine years at the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Law, until she was appointed as the Dean of Law at the University of Calgary.  She spent the year before returning to Toronto as the Executive Director Education (Alberta) and Scholar-in-Residence in the Calgary office of Bennett Jones LLP. 

Dr. Hughes has taught in the areas of constitutional law, feminist legal theories, dispute resolution and legal method and has written and spoken extensively in those areas and on issues arising in labour law, legal aid, administrative law and practice, legal education and law reform.