Our Staff
Cheryl Milne, LL.B., M.S.W., Executive Director
Cheryl Milne is the inaugural executive director of the Centre. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1987 and completed an MSW at the University of Toronto in 1991. Prior to coming to the Centre, Ms Milne was a legal advocate for children with the legal clinic Justice for Children and Youth. There she led the clinic’s Charter litigation including the challenge to the corporal punishment defence in the Criminal Code [ Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. Canada (2004)], the striking down of the reverse onus sections of the Youth Criminal Justice Act for adult sentencing [ R. v. D.B. (2008)], and an intervention involving the right of a capable adolescent to consent to her own medical treatment ( A.C. v. Manitoba Child and Family Services (2009)]. She has represented the Asper Centre in R. v. Conway and most recently in the Polygamy Reference case. She is the Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section and teaches a clinical course in constitutional advocacy at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and Social Work & the Law at Ryerson University. Ms Milne is also the director of the combined JD and MSW program at the Faculty of Law.
Our Students
Arina Rosu started her role as the 2011 Summer Intern at the Asper Centre after completing her first year of the JD program. Prior to law school, Arina earned a BA (Honours Business Administration) from the Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario, and worked in advertising for two years. She is passionate about Charter litigation and has an interest in access to justice issues and their role in constitutional argument. She is excited and honoured to conduct research for the Centre this summer..
Kate Joseph is the Winter 2011 Practicum student at the Asper Centre. She is a first year social work student, who previously completed her BA (Honours) in Psychology at Bishop’s University (Sherbrooke, QC). She is interested in issues concerning advocacy and social justice including human rights, criminal justice, and social policy.