Mark Musselman is a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where his doctoral research examines whether Canada's Canadian content ("CanCon") regulatory regime continues to fulfill its nation-building purpose in the digital age. Drawing on theories of nationalism advanced by Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm, and Billig, and combining doctrinal and historical legal analysis with a nationwide socio-legal survey of Canadian audiences, his dissertation offers the first systematic empirical assessment of CanCon's identity-building efficacy and proposes a framework for reimagining Canadian cultural policy for the streaming era.
Mark brings more than three decades of experience at the intersection of law, media, and cultural policy to this research. He practised as a media, communications, and entertainment lawyer at Goodmans LLP before serving as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel at Serendipity Point Films, where he was Executive Producer of twenty-four theatrical feature films and television series and represented the industry before the CRTC, Telefilm Canada, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. He subsequently founded Barnraiser Media Finance Inc., advising domestic and international producers, broadcasters, and financiers on the structuring of film and television investment.
Mark holds a Master of Laws (Law & Technology) from the University of Ottawa (2024), a Bachelor of Laws from Western University (1991), and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Goshen College (1987). He is the recipient of the James H. Bocking Memorial Award (2024) from the Canadian Bar Association's Competition and Foreign Investment Review Section, and his work has appeared in the Canadian Competition Law Review.
Mark Musselman
Profile
Mark
Musselman
Doctoral student
Supervisor : Professor Elizabeth Judge
Research interest: Media and cultural policy law, cultural sovereignty, Canadian broadcasting regulation, cultural nationalism, national identity formation, telecommunications and internet regulation
Supervisor : Professor Elizabeth Judge
Research interest: Media and cultural policy law, cultural sovereignty, Canadian broadcasting regulation, cultural nationalism, national identity formation, telecommunications and internet regulation
Faculty of Law
University of Ottawa
Biography
Scholarships and Bursaries
- James H. Bocking Memorial Award (2024) - awarded by the Canadian Bar Association's Competition and Foreign Investment Review Section for the best scholarly paper on Canadian competition law.
Publications
- M Musselman, "Cultivating Change: How Canada's Competition Act Can Address the Use of Technological Protection Measures in Agriculture" (2024) 37:2 Canadian Competition Law Review.