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:
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:
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.