Professor of law at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, writing about technology and constitutional rights. More here.
Bluesky
Recent commentary
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“Canadian News Media are Suing OpenAI for Copyright Infringement, But Will They Win?”
The Conversation (1 December 2024)
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“Google’s AI Podcasts Signal a New Era in Media”
CIGIonline (14 November 2024)
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“The Reasons for Shutting Down TikTok in Canada Appear Tenuous at Best”
The Conversation (11 November 2024)
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“Why new AI Tools for Legal Research Fail to Deliver the Goods”
Canadian Lawyer (8 November 2024)
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“Apple Intelligence Will Help AI Become As Commonplace As Word Processing”
The Conversation (21 October 2024)
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“What Made-in-Canada Legal AI Can and Can’t Do Well”
CBA National Magazine (9 October 2024)
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“Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media — or the Opposite?”
CIGIonline (22 July 2024)
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“The Case for Mandating Finer-Grained Control Over Social Media Algorithms”
Tech Policy Press (12 July 2024)
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“The Online Harms Act Should Target Social Media’s Greatest Harm”
Policy Options (30 May 2024)
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“Is AI About To Replace All Human Writing? Not So Fast”
Newsweek (25 April 2024)
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“Why Ontario School Boards Are Suing Social Media Platforms for Causing an Attention Crisis”
The Conversation (29 March 2024)
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“Does TikTok Pose a Security Threat to Canadians?”
The Conversation (15 March 2024)
Selected research
- “Too Dangerous to Deploy? The Challenge Language Models Pose to Regulating AI in Canada and the EU” (forthcoming 2024) UBC Law Review PDF
- “Search Engines and Global Takedown Orders: Google v Equustek and the Future of Free Speech Online” (2020) 56:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 231 PDF
- “The Road Not Taken: Missing Powers to Compel Decryption in Bill C-59, Ticking-Bombs, and the Future of the Encryption Debate” (2019) 57:1 Alberta Law Review 267 PDF