Type: Faculty

Arthurs, Harry

University Professor, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School (1972-77) and President of York University (1985-92), Harry Arthurs has also been an academic visitor at several Canadian, British and Commonwealth universities.

Arthurs’ publications range widely over the areas of legal education and the legal profession, legal history and legal theory, labour and administrative law, globalization and constitutionalism. His academic contributions have been recognized by his election as an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.  He was awarded the Canada Council’s Killam Prize for his lifetime contributions to the social sciences (2002), the Bora Laskin Prize for his contributions to labour law (2003) and the International Labour Organization’s Decent Work Research Prize (jointly with Joseph Stiglitz) (2008).

Arthurs has been an arbitrator and mediator in labour disputes, has conducted inquiries and reviews at Canadian and American universities, and has provided advice to governments on a number of issues ranging from higher education policy to the constitution to labour and employment law.  Recently, he has chaired reviews of Canada’s labour standards legislation (2004-2006), Ontario’s pension legislation (2006-2008) and the funding of Ontario’s workplace safety and insurance system (2010-2012).  He has also served as a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, member of the Economic Council of Canada and President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Oppong, Richard Frimpong

Professor Richard Frimpong Oppong joined the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2024. He has taught in the USA and UK and at Thompson Rivers University. He completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia and Post-doctoral studies at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, a first-class Master of Laws degree in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge, and a first-class Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ghana. He was called to the Ghana Bar in October 2003 after completing the professional law course at the Ghana School of Law with distinction. He received the John Mensah Sarbah Certificate of Honour and the Charles Mensah-Cann Memorial Prize awarded to the best graduating student there.

Professor Oppong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He was a member of the Working Group of The Hague Conference on Private International Law that drafted The Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, 2015. The Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law has selected him to deliver a special Course, comprising five magisterial lectures, during the private international law session in the summer of 2026. Before this, he served as the Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law during the private international law session in the summer of 2012. He is the Program Advisor to the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies which offers LLM and PhD programs on East African integration.

Professor Oppong maintains research and teaching interests in private international law, international arbitration, contract law, domestic and international sale of goods law, and regional trade and economic integration in Africa. He has published widely and made outstanding contributions to advancing the law with his scholarship. He has published eight books (comprising four sole-authored books, two co-authored books and two co-edited books) and over 55 articles, book chapters, and book reviews.

Professor Oppong’s internationally excellent research outputs have been variously described by independent reviewers in book reviews as “tackling a major problem of long-term interest”; “offering innovative insights”; “a remarkable tour de force”; “ambitious and methodologically executed”; “clear and authoritative”; “instructive, illuminating, lucid, thoroughly researched”; “clear, accessible, informed and informative”; and as of “practical value” and of “exceptional quality”. Two of his publications have won international awards: the 2013 American Society of International Law Prize in Private International Law and the 2014 James Crawford Prize of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. In 2011, he was nominated for the prestigious Hessel Yntema Prize of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Some of his books and journal articles have been translated into French and Chinese. He is frequently cited in academic publications and judicial decisions.

Professor Oppong’s research has been funded by external funding from funding bodies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Killam Trusts, the Foundation for Legal Research in Canada and the British Academy,

Professor Oppong has been invited to peer-reviewed articles and books for more than 20 journals and publishers. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Yearbook of Private International Law and the Journal of Private International Law. He is an Assistant Editor of the Global Journal of Comparative Law.

Research Interests:  Private International Law, International Arbitration, Contract Law, International and Domestic Sale of Goods Law, and Regional Economic Integration in Africa.

On leave for the current academic year.

Ahmad, Hassan M.

Professor Hassan M. Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where he researches and teaches on topics related to corporate governance, business and human rights, transnational law, tort law, international law and climate change litigation. Prior to joining Osgoode Hall, Professor Ahmad was an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He also served as a full-time Replacement Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section). He holds an SJD from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Osgoode Hall. During his doctorate, he was a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Prior to entering academia, Professor Ahmad worked at the International Criminal Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and as a private practice civil and class actions litigator in Toronto.

Professor Ahmad’s research has been recognized by a number of prestigious scholarly organizations, including the American Society of International Law and the American Society of Comparative Law. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Litigating Business and Human Rights Violations: Themes, Perspectives, and Prospects (Cambridge, University Press, forthcoming). His work has also appeared in leading Canadian and foreign journals such as the American Journal of International Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, UBC Law Review, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Queen’s Law Journal, and Transnational Legal Theory, among several others. He has also published several book chapters in edited volumes. His research has been funded by, among others, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Law Foundation of British Columbia, the Hampton Fund at UBC, and the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research.

At the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Professor Ahmad won teaching awards for in-person and online teaching as well as for his mentorship of JD and graduate students. Outside of his academic work, he has continued to be involved in public interest litigation, representing clients at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Otherwise, Professor Ahmad lends his expertise regularly to media outlets. His commentary on high profile civil cases, issues of corporate accountability, and climate change has appeared in, for instance, The Globe and Mail, CBC News, CTV News, The Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun, and the Winnipeg Free Press, among others.

Research Interests:  Torts, Corporate Governance, Business and Human Rights, Climate Change Litigation, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, International Law, Transnational Law, Class Actions, Colonial Legal History, Islamic Law

Cameron, Jamie

Jamie Cameron, who is now Professor Emerita, was a member of the faculty (1984-2020) and a full professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her degrees are: B.A. (UBC 1975), LL.B. (McGill University 1978), LL.M. (Columbia University 1983), and MA (art history, York University 2024). Professor Cameron was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Hon. Justice Brian Dickson (1978-79) and was on the faculty at Cornell Law School before joining Osgoode in 1984.

Professor Cameron is one of Canada’s senior constitutional scholars, whose scholarship and teaching focused on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of expression and the press, the Supreme Court of Canada, criminal law, American constitutional law, and judicial biography. Her scholarship can be found at the Osgoode Digital Commons and on her SSRN page. Professor Cameron has been on the Board of Editors for Ontario Reports for over thirty years, was editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and edited or co-edited a dozen book collections. Over the years she chaired and co-chaired many conferences and events. Professor Cameron was appointed to two review boards, which exercise jurisdiction over mentally disordered criminal offenders under Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code (Ontario Review Board (2013-2022); Nunavut Review Board (2018-present)).

Professor Cameron was a longtime Director and Vice-President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, was a member of the Board of Directors for the BC Civil Liberties Association and is currently a member of CCLA’s National Council. She is on the Advisory Board and Academic Freedom Committee for the Centre for Free Expression (Toronto Metropolitan University). Professor Cameron represented the CCLA and the Centre for Free Expression in several Charter cases at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her cultural activities include the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Board of Trustees, 2004-2012, and vice-chair, 2011-13); Canada’s National Ballet School (Board of Directors, 2011-2014); Inuit Art Foundation (Board of Directors, 2016-2022); Art Canada Institute (Board of Directors, 2019-2024); and Artworks for Cancer (Board of Directors, 2021-present).

McMahon, Patricia

Professor Patricia McMahon’s areas of teaching and research are civil procedure, law and equity and legal history broadly defined. She is also the Director and Lead Interviewer of the Oral History Program at the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the Co-Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution. She joined the faculty in July 2022 after a number of years in private practice.

Professor McMahon holds a BA in history from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in history from the University of Toronto. She was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her work on how protest movements influenced Canada’s nuclear policy from 1957 to 1963, the subject of her PhD in Canadian diplomatic and political history from the University of Toronto. This was followed by an LLB (with honours) from the University of Toronto, where she served as co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review and received the Dean Cecil A. Wright Key. Following a clerkship with the Honorable Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada, she attended Yale Law School as a Fulbright Fellow, where she completed an LLM and JSD. Her dissertation dealt with the influence of law reform movements on the procedural fusion of law and equity in Victorian England, which led to the Judicature Acts and modern conceptions of civil procedure.  At Yale, she was also a student director in a clinic engaged in civil liberties litigation related to the policies of the U.S. government following the attacks of September 11, 2001. This included cases involving detentions, search and seizure, due process, international human rights and humanitarian law. From 2004 to 2008, she served as a regional representative for the executive committee of Yale Law School.

While in private practice, Professor McMahon focused on complex litigation, including class actions, public law and tax litigation. She appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Professor McMahon has published widely on aspects of legal history, access to information, the fusion of law and equity and equitable procedure, including two books. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (with Robert J. Sharpe) was published jointly by the University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History in 2007. The book was the members’ selection for that year, won the Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize and was short-listed for the John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize. Essence of Indecision: Diefenbaker’s Nuclear Policy 1957-1963 was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2009 and is considered the leading text on the topic. She is currently working on three manuscripts: one related to the history of the fusion of law and equity, another with co-author Robert Bothwell on a multi-million-dollar fraud that involved the Canadian company that supplied uranium to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, and a third involving the judicial treatment of a series of landmark constitutional cases in the 1930s known as the “Bennett New Deal.”

Professor McMahon’s work with the Osgoode Society involves overseeing the oral history collection, which is the largest collection of its kind in the world.  She is also the lead interviewer and regularly conducts interviews with lawyers and judges about their contributions to the legal profession.

Research Interests: civil procedure; legal process; the impact of COVID-19 on the courts and the legal profession; lawyers in public life; law reform (both modern and historical); the fusion of law and equity; equitable procedure; and legal history broadly defined, including legal biography.

 

Choudhury, Barnali

Barnali Choudhury is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Prior to joining Osgoode, she was a Professor at University College London and academic director of UCL’s Global Governance Institute.

She is an internationally recognized expert on business and international economic issues, particularly as they relate to issues of human rights. She has published numerous books, including The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2023); Corporate Duties to the Public (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Understanding the Company: Corporate Governance and Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Public Services and International Trade Liberalization: Human Rights and Gender Implications (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Business Law Journal, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, as well as in numerous other journals and in book chapters. It has also been featured in the Oxford Business Law Blog, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog and the American Society of International Law Insight, among others. She has written op-eds for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and iPolitics and her work has been featured on the CBC and in Bloomberg Businessweek. She has held numerous research grants including grants from the Leverhulme Trust and SSHRC.

She is regularly invited to give talks and has presented her work throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and at the United Nations. She has visited at New York University, University of Cambridge, National University of Singapore, University of St. Gallen, University of Otago, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private Law. In addition to numerous academic citations, her work has been cited by the United Nations, the UK’s House of Commons, the House of Lords EU Select Committee, international arbitral tribunals and relied on by governments and international non-governmental organizations.

In addition, she is an Advisory Member for the Academic Circle Supporting the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, on the board of directors for Ecojustice Canada, a principal co-investigator for the Canada Climate Law Initiative, a co-director of Osgoode Professional Development’s LLM in International Business Law, an Editorial Board Member of the Business and Human Rights Journal and is appointed to the pool of candidates for the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development Panel.

For her latest research visit her SSRN page.

Research Interests:  Corporate Law, Business & Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, International Investment Law, Corporate Governance, International Trade Law, International Arbitration

Akande, Rabiat

Professor Rabiat Akande works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law, and (post)colonial African law and society. Her research explores law’s interplay with global inequality. She investigates this relationship in the historical setting of Europe’s nineteenth and twentieth-century empire, especially in its encounter with Africa and the Muslim World. Her work further grapples with the afterlife of that encounter for law, unveiling legacies that resound far beyond erstwhile colonies.

In her recent book, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Dr. Akande investigates the case of the British imperial encounter in Colonial Northern Nigeria. In particular, the book chronicles contestations between British colonial officials, Christian missionaries, and indigenous Muslim elites over law’s governance religious difference, and grapples with the postcolonial legacy of those struggles. The book illuminates law’s centrality to one of modernity’s most contested issues–the relationship between religion, the state, and society–while also spotlighting law’s complex relationship with power, political theology, identity, and socio-political change.

Beyond Entangled Domains, Dr. Akande’s work has appeared in the American Journal of International Law (forthcoming), the Law and History Review, the Journal of Law and Religion, the Supreme Court Law Review, Die Welt des Islam (forthcoming), and in co-edited volumes published by or forthcoming with the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, University of Toronto Press, and the University of Virginia Press. Dr. Akande is currently at work on “Malcolm X, Black Globalism, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism,” a book project that investigates the globalist critique of imperialism that was central to Malcolm X’s thought in his last years and inspired by his visits to Africa and the Muslim World. She is also at work on a volume interrogating histories of the idea of the “international” in pre-colonial Africa.

Dr. Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among other institutions. Before Osgoode Hall Law School, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies as an Academy Scholar from 2019-2021. She received her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from Harvard Law School in 2019 with her dissertation, “Navigating Entanglements: Contestations over Religion-State Relations in British Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1978” receiving the Law and Society in the Muslim World Prize. At Harvard University, Dr. Akande held the Clark Byse fellowship at the Law School and was a Dissertation Fellow and Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She also served on the editorial board of the Harvard International Law Journal. Dr Akande taught courses at Harvard in the Law School and the Department for African and African American Studies. She also taught at Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to her graduate work, Dr. Akande obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ibadan, graduating with First Class Honors and at the top of her class. She later studied at the Nigerian Law School, from which she also graduated with First Class Honors.

Dr. Akande’s research has been supported by fellowships and grants, including from the US National Science Foundation (as part of a Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative), the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Cravath International Research fellowship, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs fellowship, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World research grant, among others. She serves on the International Journal of Law in Context editorial board. She is the co-chair of the American Society of International Law’s Africa Interest Group. She is also active in the American Society for Legal History, the Law and Society Association, and the African Studies Association.

Research Interests:  legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law and the global south, and (post)colonial African law and society.

Ozai, Ivan

Ivan Ozai researches and teaches national and international tax law and policy, with a particular focus on the intersection of tax law with legal theory and political philosophy.

His academic writing has appeared in various law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, such as the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, the Fordham International Law Journal, the Dalhousie Law Journal, the World Tax Journal, the Canadian Tax Journal, and the Journal of Tax Studies. He is the author of Expenditures in the Value-Added Tax (2019), published in Portuguese by Editora Lumen Juris, and has participated in several edited volumes, including Tax Justice and Tax Law: Understanding Unfairness in Tax Systems (Hart Publishing, 2020).

Professor Ozai has been the recipient of multiple awards for his scholarly work, including the IFA USA Writing Award (2018) by the International Fiscal Association and the Paul-Gérin-Lajoie Rising Star Award (2019) by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Société et Culture (FRQSC). His recent work was shortlisted for the Frans Vanistendael Award (2023) by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.

Before moving into academia, he practised tax for more than ten years as a litigator, legal adviser, and chartered professional accountant. In Brazil, he was appointed a tax court judge and held several senior government positions, including as the Director-General of the Advance Tax Rulings Directorate of the Department of Finance of the State of Sao Paulo.

Professor Ozai was awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Teaching Award in 2023. He currently sits on the editorial board and serves as a reviewer for several journals and book publishers in law and philosophy. He is also a board member of the YIN Steering Committee (Canada) of the International Fiscal Association. During his doctoral studies at McGill University Faculty of Law, where he was a Richard H. Tomlinson fellow, he was a visiting scholar at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de Montréal (CÉRIUM), and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Ontario.

Research Interests: National, International and Comparative Tax Law; Fiscal Policy; Fiscal Federalism; Statutory Interpretation; Deontic Logic; Jurisprudence

De Stefano, Valerio

Valerio De Stefano, PhD, is a Full Professor of Law. He joined Osgoode in January 2022 and was then appointed as the inaugural Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society. From October 2017 to December 2021, he was the BOF-ZAP Research Professor of Labour Law at the Institute for Labour Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.

Valerio De Stefano read law at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he obtained a master’s degree in 2006 and later received his doctoral degree (2011). At Bocconi University, he served as a postdoctoral researcher between 2011 and 2014 while also being a part-time associate in an international law firm. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as an officer of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. During his career, he was a visiting academic at the University College London (UCL), a postdoctoral member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge (2013), a Distinguished Speaker for Spring 2018 at the “William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law” at Saint Louis University Law School (2018), and a Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) at the University of Melbourne (2019).

 

In 2018, Professor De Stefano was awarded an Odysseus Grant from the Research Foundations—Flanders (FWO) amounting to 880,000 Euro for an interdisciplinary research project on the working conditions and labour protection of platform workers. From 2020 to 2022, he was also the principal investigator at the KU Leuven of a Horizon2020 Grant about in-work poverty.

 

Since 2024, Valerio De Stefano is the General Editor of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal (CLLPJ). He also regularly publishes articles in major specialised academic journals. In 2016, he was the guest editor of a special issue of the CLLPJ on “Crowdsourcing, the Gig-Economy, and the Law”. In 2019, he was the guest editor of a special issue of the same journal on “Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Labour Protection”. He also was the co-editor of a special issue on “Testing the ‘Personal Work’ Relation: New Trade Union Strategies for New Forms of Employment” published by the European Labour Law Journal and of a special issue of Transfer on “Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management”. In 2022, with professor Antonio Aloisi, he published “Your Boss Is an Algorithm. Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour” (Hart Publishing), a monograph about algorithmic management and artificial intelligence at work.

 

He is an Editorial Adviser of the International Labour Review.

 

Professor De Stefano acted as a consultant for the International Labour Office, the European Parliament, Eurofound, the Joint Research Center of the EU Commission and national governments. His research is also frequently referred to by governments and international organisations, including the International Labour Organisation, the OECD, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, and has been cited by courts, parliamentary bills, policy reports, employers’ and workers’ organisations, and media worldwide.

 

In addition to numerous academic conferences, lectures, and seminars, he was invited to speak as an expert on the labour protection of new forms of work as well as technology and labour rights at the European Parliament, the European Social and Economic Committee, the ILO, the OECD, and the Canada-EU dialogue on employment, social affairs and decent work. He is a member of the OECD’s Network of Experts on AI (One AI). He was the recipient of a KU Leuven Service to Society Award (Maatschappijprijs) in 2020, a York Research Award in 2023, and an Osgoode Teaching Award in 2024.

 

Research Interests:  Labour Law, Employment Law, Law and Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Algorithmic Management, Artificial Intelligence and Work, Digitalisation and Society, Platform Work, Non-Standard Employment, International and Comparative Labour law.

 

 

Penney, Jonathon

Jon is a legal scholar and social scientist who joined the Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in July 2020. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society ; a Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy;  and a Research Associate of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CATLab) based at Cornell University’s Department of Communications

A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, he has studied law at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and at Oxford University as a Mackenzie King Scholar. He holds a doctorate in “Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences” from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (Balliol College, 2016). Before joining Osgoode, he taught law at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and spent time as a Research Associate at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. More recently, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media.

Jon’s research and teaching expertise lies at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights, with an emphasis on emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and automation, as well as interdisciplinary and empirical methods. His research often explores the privacy, security, and safety dimensions of these technologies and their implications for law, policy, and human rights. His award winning research in this context has been published in top law reviews and leading international conferences on AI and machine learning (e.g., ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS) and has received national and international attention, including coverage in the Washington Post, Reuters International, New York Times, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, NBC News, and WIRED among others, and has been chronicled by Harvard Magazine. For instance, his research on the privacy chilling effects of online surveillance won the Reidenberg—Kerr Paper Award at the 2020 Privacy Law Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley Law; and, more recently, his work on the legal risks of adversarial attacks on generative AI systems won the Spotlight Paper Award at the Generative AI and the Law (GenLaw ’24) Workshop held at the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2024) held in Vienna, Austria.

Beyond research and teaching, Jon serves on Advisory Boards for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a non-profit whose mission is to combat online abuse that threatens civil rights and civil liberties, and the Law Commission of Ontario’s AI and Administrative Decision-Making Project and the Steering Committee for the Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) workshop, which is co-located at the annual USENIX Security Symposium. He was also recently invited to join the Program Committee for the Workshop on Generative AI and Law (GenLaw) that coincides with the annual International Conference on Machine Learning.

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Research Interests:  Technology Law, Privacy/Surveillance, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Human Rights, Online Abuse/Harassment, Disinformation/Manipulation, Empirical/Computational Legal Studies, Private Law.