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/.