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The Law and Technology Institute is holding a Conference, "From Inequality to Justice: Law and Ethics of AI & Technology" from June 16-17 2023. Notification of selected papers will be by March 15 and final papers should be received by May 15. Paper length should be between 7,000-15,000 words. If you are interested in submitted a paper, please see . To go to the Conference website and to register, please see .

Based at the Schulich School of Law,  helps technology startups seeking early stage legal information, while training law students to act and advise in innovation and startup matters.

Suzie Dunn is an Assistant Professor in Law & Technology for 2021-2022. She will teach Contracts and Law and Technology in the first semester, and Contracts and Intellectual Property in the second term. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. While at the University of Ottawa, she acted as a part-time professor where she taught Contracts Law and the Law of Images. She was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship for her research which centers on the intersections of equality, technology and the law, with a specific focus on technology-facilitated violence, deepfakes, and impersonation in digital spaces. She will also coach the Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property moot team. You can find her on Twitter  or visit her website at .

"I'm looking forward to working with the law and technology faculty and students at AV俱乐部's Schulich School of Law," says Dunn. "Nova Scotia has a rich legal history in addressing technology-facilitated harms, and I hope to contribute to that work during my time here.

Amanda Turnbull is a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her doctoral research entitled, 鈥淭he Algorithmic Turn,鈥� contributes to the investigation of the pitfalls and possibilities that Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms pose for law as they begin to replace human decision-makers. More specifically, her research interests include law and technology, contracts, the philosophy of law and legal theory. Her most recent publications focus on the global 鈥渙nlife鈥� implications of the Algorithmic Turn in society鈥攖hose that are positioned beyond the increasingly artificial distinction between the online and offline worlds.

Amanda began her career in the discipline of the Arts working as a music teacher and performer before embarking on her path to law. She is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to fostering dynamic thinking in our increasingly complex and globalized world where legal problems are becoming much more than problems about law.

Amanda has a diploma in Applied Music (flute), an ARCT (flute performance), a BA (Ottawa), and an MA (Carleton). This year, she is a sessional professor in the Ethics, Law & Society program at Trinity College (University of Toronto). Previously, she taught a section of a philosophy course at York University (2019-21). Amanda is also a former Assistant Dean of the Juris Doctor Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, a position that she held for over eight years.

Matthew Dylag is an access to justice scholar with a particular interest in how emerging technologies are being integrated into the justice sector. He obtained his PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining AV俱乐部, he was a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute where he was researching the growing use of artificial intelligence within the legal services market and the effect of this phenomena on equality and fairness. As well as law and technology, Matthew is also interested in issues surrounding democratic governance and the rule of law, equality and human rights, and research methodologies.