Ilana Dodi Luther has a background in law and policy and is the Executive Director of the Access to Justice & Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia (formerly the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia). Now located at the Schulich School of Law, the Institute is a non-profit organization is dedicated to law reform and acting as a center of coordination, research, education, and action on access to justice.

Ilana first joined the Law Reform Commission as legal research counsel in 2011, transitioned to work as a policy analyst for government in 2017, then returned to the Institute to serve as Director in 2018.

Ilana has a first law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, an LLM from Harvard Law School. She has a Masters of Information Management from the University of Alberta and attended the Maytree Policy School in 2021.​ In 2015, Ilana earned her Doctorate in Law from the Schulich School of Law and teaches poverty law and law reform there on a part-time basis.