Teresa Scassa

Teresa Scassa

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Teresa Scassa
Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy and Full Professor

BA (Creative Writing, Concordia University)
LL.B./B.C.L (McGill University)
LL.M (University of Michigan)
S.J.D. (University of Michigan)

Room
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room FTX 387
Phone
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 3872
Office: 613-562-5124


Biography

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Dr Scassa’s work is often significantly interdisciplinary in approach. She is currently involved in projects that explore the governance of AI in health care, health data justice, privacy issues with publicly accessible data, data protection law reform in Canada, and AI regulation. Dr Scassa serves in a volunteer capacity on numerous advisory bodies, including the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Strategic Advisory Council, Ontario’s AI Expert Working Group, and the Ontario Health Data Council. She is also a board member of the Health Data Research Network. Dr Scassa is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa.

Over the course of her career, Dr Scassa has written widely in the areas of privacy law, the regulation of artificial intelligence, data governance and intellectual property law. In 2024 she was awarded the Piccasso Award in the category of Privacy Leader Academia/Thought Leader. Many of her published papers can be found on SSRN.com. Her blog on current issues in her field of expertise can be found at: http://www.teresascassa.ca or at https://teresascassa.substack.com/.

Publications

Books

  • Canadian Intellectual Property Law:  Cases, Notes and Materials, 3d ed., Emond Montgomery Publications, 2022. (General Co-editors: Graham Reynolds & Teresa Scassa; Co-authors: Gregory Hagen, Cameron Hutchison, Graham Reynolds, Teresa Scassa, Margaret Ann Wilkinson and Teshager Dagne. 816 pp.
  • The Future of Open Data (Pamela Robinson and Teresa Scassa, eds.), University of Ottawa Press 2022. https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/43648
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Florian Martin-Bariteau and Teresa Scassa, eds.), LexisNexis, 2021.
  • Digital Commerce in Canada (by Michael Deturbide and Teresa Scassa), LexisNexis, 2020.
  • Law and the Sharing Economy: Regulating Online Market Platforms.      Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, November 27, 2018. (Co-edited with Derek McKee and Finn Makela).
  • Canadian Trademark Law, 2d Edition, Lexis Nexis Canada. 2015. 878 pp
  • Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization, Irwin Law, 2014 (Co-authored with Stephen Coughlan, Robert Currie and Hugh Kindred. All authors are equal contributors. 372 pp.
  • Intellectual Property Law for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Irwin Law, 2014. (Co-edited with B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau and Madelaine Saginur. All editors are equal contributors) 561pp.

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