Jane Bailey
Jane Bailey
Full Professor (Academic leave)

BAS (Hons.) (Trent University)
MIR (Queen's University)
LLB (Queen's University)
LLM (Toronto)

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Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 2364
Office: 613-562-5124


Biography

Jane Bailey is a Full Professor in the Common Law Section (English). Her research focuses on the inter-related privacy and equality impacts of existing and emerging technologies in digitally networked environments, focusing on their disproportionately negative effects on communities already-marginalized by oppressions such as misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, and their intersections. She has spoken, written and published on a variety of topics, including:
 

• technology-facilitated violence (TFV)
   - text and image based sexual abuse
   - digital hate propagation
   - corporate participation in TFV
   - young people’s experiences with TFV
   - girls’ and young women’s experiences of the digital world
 
• education technology
 
• technology and access to justice
 
• privacy, free expression and consent
 

Professor Bailey and Dr Jacquelyn Burkell (Western University) co-lead Rethinking Consent in Light of Scientific and Technological Developments, a 4-year initiative funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  Rethinking Consent focuses on engaging Canadians in dialogue about the inadequacy of the individual consent model (ICM) to protect privacy and equality in an era of AI.  Its goal is to produce citizen-informed and equality-enhancing reforms of and alternatives to the ICM that better address the collective implications of digital technologies, especially for members of marginalized communities.

Prior to The Rethinking Consent Project, Professor Bailey co-led:
 

• with Dr Valerie Steeves The eQuality Project, a 7-year SSHRC Funded Partnership initiative focused on young people’s experiences with privacy and equality in a digitally networked environment and how those experiences are shaped by the data-in-exchange for services business model currently underlying our digital world. Jane led the project stream on TFV, focusing on gender-based violence and the role, responsibility and regulation of technology corporations whose business model perpetuates and perpetrates that violence;
 
• with Dr. Steeves The eGirls Project, a 3-year SSHRC Funded Partnership Development initiative focused on girls' and young women's experiences in a digitally networked environment; and
 
• with Dr Jacquelyn Burkell working groups in Towards Cyberjustice, a 7-year SSHRC Funded Partnership initiative led by Professor Karim Benyehklef (UdeMontréal) focused on whether and, if so, how technology could improve access to justice, and in The ACT Project, a 5-year SSHRC Funded Partnership initiative led by Professor Benyehklef, focused on technology’s impact on the rights and autonomy of justice system stakeholders.
 

Before becoming a professor at uOttawa in 2002, Professor Bailey completed her LL.M. at the University of Toronto, practiced litigation with Torys LLP in Toronto, and served as a law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her litigation experience includes acting on matters relating to unlawful search of political protesters, on the first Internet hate propagation case to come before a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and acting as lead counsel for the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) in its interventions before the Supreme Court of Canada in two decisions related to voyeurism - Jarvis and Downes.


 

Selected Honours and Community Involvement

  • Research Fellow, Centre for Protecting Women Online, The Open University, England 2025-2026
  • Member, Canadian Delegation for the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2023
  • Member, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund’s Technology-Facilitated Violence Project
  • Member, New College of the Royal Society of Canada 2016-2023
  • Member, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Strategic Advisory Council2021-
  • Recipient, Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law (CBA) 2016
  • Visiting Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico (2013), University of Hong Kong (2018) and RMIT (Melbourne) (2018)

Selected Publications

• The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse, Jane Bailey, Asher Flynn and Nicola Henry (eds) (2021)
 
• eAccess to Justice, Karim Benyehklef, Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell and Fabien Gelinas (eds) (2016)
 
• eGirls, eCitizens, Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves (eds) (2015)
 
• Whose Security are We Talking About Anyway?: The Case of Amazon Ring in Laidlaw & Martin-Bariteau (2025) (with Kristen Thomasen and Jacquelyn Burkell)
 
• Recurring Themes in Tech-facilitated Violence over Time: The More Things Change The More They Stay the Same (with Suzie Dunn) (2023)
 
• Toward Survivor-Centred Outcomes for Targets of Privacy-Invasive TFVA (with Jasmine Dong) (2023)
 
• Calling All Stakeholders: An Intersectional Dialogue About Collaborating to End TFVA (with Raine Liliefeldt) (2021)
 
• Parenting in the Shadow of Corporate Surveillance: Reflections on Children’s Privacy After Widespread Pandemic-Induced Adoption of Education Technology (With Vanessa Ford)(2022)
 
• AI and TFVA (in Martin-Bariteau and Scassa (2021)) (with Jacquelyn Burkell, Suzie Dunn, Chandell Gosse and Valerie Steeves)
 
• Tech-Facilitated Violence: Thinking Structurally and Intersectionally (with Jacquelyn Burkell) (2021)
 
• Ethical Dilemmas in Resistance Art Workshops with Youth (with Chloe Georas and Valerie Steeves) (2021)
 
• Big Data, Privacy and Education Applications (with Priscilla Regan) (2019)
 
• Technology-facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls: Assessing the Canadian Criminal Law Response (with Carissima Mathen) (2019)
 
• Twenty Years Later Taylor Still Has it Right: How the Canadian Human Rights Act’s Hate Speech Provision Continues to Contribute to Equality (2010)
 
Private Regulation and Public Policy: Toward Effective Restriction of Internet Hate Propaganda (2004)


 

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