Cheryl Milne, Executive Director
Cheryl Milne is the Executive Director of the Asper Centre, and teaches a clinical course in constitutional advocacy, and Children, Youth and the Law at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Prior to coming to the Centre, Ms. Milne was a legal advocate for children with the legal clinic Justice for Children and Youth where she led the clinic’s Charter litigation. She was the Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section, and the Chair of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children and Justice Children and Youth. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Association for Women and the Law (NAWL) and the Child and Youth Law Section Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. In 2018 she received the Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Ontario for her contributions to the profession through her child rights advocacy and legal education.
Tal Schreier
Tal is the Asper Centre’s Program Coordinator, responsible for the Centre’s events, community outreach, advocacy, and overseeing the Asper Centre’s student researchers and student working groups. Tal holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Cape Town. Prior to the Asper Centre, Tal served as the first Legal Coordinator for the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program & Lifeline Syria. From 2002 until 2014, Tal worked at the University of Cape Town Refugee Rights Unit, where she managed its UNHCR-funded refugee legal aid clinic, convened and led training programs on refugee rights for government officials, police, social workers, and community members, taught refugee law to law students and led research projects, including co-editing and co-writing South Africa’s first textbook on refugee law, titled Refugee Law in South Africa (Juta: 2014, second edition 2023).
Rob De Luca
Rob is a Research Associate at the Asper Centre, where his responsibilities include supporting the Centre’s legal research and policy advocacy projects. Prior to joining the Centre, Rob’s work experience has included practicing as a lawyer at a boutique labour firm in Vancouver; advocating on Charter-related policy issues, and directing interventions across Canada, as a lawyer and program director at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association; and, most recently, working for the Centre for Constitutional Studies, and teaching constitutional law as a sessional instructor, at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Rob holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Tyler Lee
Tyler is a Research Assistant at the Asper Centre and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Tyler holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario. There, Tyler conducted research that explored issues at the intersection of Kantian moral philosophy and the Charter protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Before entering law school, Tyler also interned in the legal department of an international Quick-Service Restaurant in Atlanta, GA. There, he spearheaded the development of an AODA-compliant accessibility policy, assisted with advisory on environmental regulations, and assisted with the development of company-wide anti-corruption practices.
Romina Hajizadeh
Romina is a Research Assistant at the Asper Centre and a 2L JD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Romina earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia, where she majored in International Relations and minored in Middle East Studies. Romina’s interests in Constitutional Law stem from her experience as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for UBC’s Political Science department, where she ran tutorials and graded assessments for an introductory Canadian politics course. Throughout her undergrad, Romina also worked for a range of BC-based nonprofit organizations including West Coast Environmental Law and Kinsight Community Society.