Retirement From Court
Following his retirement from the Supreme Court, Iacobucci was appointed Interim President of the University of Toronto in 2004 and served in that post until he was replaced by David Naylor in October 2005. In September of that same year he joined Torys LLP, as Counsel, and since 2005 has been the Chair of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. He is the Chair of the Dean's Advisory Committee for the National Centre for Business Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
He sits on a number of board of directors including Torstar, publisher of the Toronto Star and a series of smaller newspapers and owner of Harlequin Enterprises, a global publisher of popular romance novels.
Iacobucci is currently the commissioner of an internal inquiry into the alleged torture of three Arab-Canadians in Syria and Egypt as the personal appointee of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper . He also chairs the selection committee for commissioners of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
On August 11, 2011, Ontario announced Iacobucci's appointment to "review the process for including individuals living in First Nations reserve communities on the (Ontario's) jury rolls," following concerns from First Nation organizations and jurists about Aboriginal people being under-represented on juries in Ontario.
Iacobucci is the former chairman of Torstar.
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