Amy F. Salyzyn

Dr. Amy Salyzyn is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law where she holds the Dean’s Research Professorship in Technology and Justice Futures. Dr. Salyzyn is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and, in 2026, she was awarded the prestigious Law Society Medal.

Dr. Salyzyn received her J.S.D. from Yale Law School for her dissertation exploring the judicial regulation of lawyers in common law jurisdictions. She also received her LL.M. from Yale Law School and her J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School, where she was awarded the Dean’s Key upon graduation. Before coming to the University of Ottawa, Dr. Salyzyn served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and practiced at a Toronto litigation boutique. Her litigation practice included a wide variety of civil and commercial litigation matters including breach of contract, tort, professional negligence, securities litigation and employment law as well as administrative law matters.

At the University of Ottawa, Dr. Salyzyn teaches Torts as well as upper year seminars in legal ethics and AI and the legal profession. She has written extensively in the area of legal ethics, lawyer regulation, the use of technology in the delivery of legal services and access to justice, having now published over 20 articles in Canadian and international peer-reviewed journals on these topics. She is also the co-author of Understanding Lawyers' Ethics in Canada, 3rd Edition, a leading Canadian legal ethics textbook and a General Editor of Canadian Legal Practice, a key practice resource in the area. Dr. Salyzyn is a regular legal ethics columnist for Slaw.ca, a Canadian online legal magazine, and has contributed to Jotwell.com.

Dr. Salyzyn’s research has been supported by a diverse set of funders including SSHRC, the Ontario Government (Early Researcher Awards Program), the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the Law Commission of Canada, the Foundation for Legal Research, the Canadian Bar Association Law for the Future Fund, and Ontario Bar Association Foundation. Her current research includes projects that explore misinformation risks as a result of generative AI use in court systems and the democratization of court data access.

Dr. Salyzyn is the Board Chair of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. She has also served as co-chair of the board of the National Association of Women and the Law and as a “Learned Counsel Advisor” for the National Association of Bar Counsel (US), Entity Regulation Committee

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• “Court Form Accessibility: Evaluating Online Guided Pathways as a Person-Centred Access to Justice Intervention” (2024) 39(3) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 512 (with Jacquelyn Burkell, Esti Azizi, and David Westcott)
• “Beyond the Numbers: Statistical and Data Literacy, Domain Literacy and Supreme Court of Canada Data Analytics” (2024) 115(2) Supreme Court Law Review 315 (with Jena McGill)
   
• “The Supreme Court of Canada and Mainstreamed Judicial Analytics” in Alschner, MacDonnell & Mathen, eds., (De)Coding the Court: Legal Data Insights into Canada’s Supreme Court (New York: Routledge, 2024) (with Jena McGill)
• “Preventing Misgendering in Canadian Courts: Respectful Forms of Address Directives” (2023) 101 Canadian Bar Review 391 (with Samuel Singer)
• “Open Courts, Privacy and Equality in a Digital Era: The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2021 Open Court Jurisprudence” (2023) 108(2) Supreme Court Law Review (with Samuel Singer)  
• “A Mixed Bag: Critical Reflections on the Ethical Principles for Judges” (2022) 100(3) Canadian Bar Review 325 (with Richard Devlin, Jula Hughes, Pooja Parmar and Stephen G.A. Pitel)  
• “AI and Legal Ethics” Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada, in Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa, (eds) Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021  
• “Professional Responsibility and the Defence of Extractive Corporations in Transnational Human Rights and Environmental Litigation in Canadian Courts” Legal Ethics 24(2) (2021) Legal Ethics 24 (with P. Simons)  
• “Judging by Numbers: How will judicial analytics impact the justice system and its stakeholders?” Dalhousie Law Journal 44:1 (2021) Dalhousie Law Journal 250 (with J. McGill)  
• “Developing Privacy Best Practices for Direct-to-Public Legal Apps: Observations and Lessons Learned, (2020) 18(1) Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (with T. Scassa, J. McGill and S. Bouclin).  
• “What Makes Court Forms Complex? Studying Empirical Support for a Functional Literacy Approach”, (2019) 15 Journal of Law and Equality 31 (co-authored with J. Burkell, E Costain and B Piva)  
• “Protecting the Public Interest: Law Society Decision-Making after Trinity Western University” (2019) 97(1) Canadian Bar Review 70 (co-authored with A Woolley)