[1] Schabas has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the British empiricists, David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.
Her maternal grandmother, Margaret Fairley, was a prominent political activist and writer.
Her brother Michael Schabas, is a prominent transit planner in the U.K., and another brother, Paul Schabas, is a Judge on the Superior Court of Ontario and served as Treasurer (President) of the Law Society of Ontario.
Another brother, Richard Schabas, served as Chief Medical Officer for the Province of Ontario.
[4] Schabas chaired the Program Committee for the History of Science Society (1997)[5] and served on its Council.