Prof. Matt Malone is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, the Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) and the Samuelson-Glushko Assistant Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. He is currently completing a PhD in Law at the Centre, under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Scassa.
Professor Matt Malone’s main research interest pertains to the various ways law protects secret information, especially in the context of trade secrecy, confidential information, access to information, privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity. He also maintains a broad interest in legal issues pertinent to modern workplaces, in particular workplace investigations. As Director of CIPPIC, he will lead the clinic’s efforts to advance Internet policy and public interest advocacy.
He is currently an academic partner at the Investigative Journalism Foundation and an advisory board member of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law.
Professor Matt Malone is a graduate of the University of Toronto (hBA), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA), and McGill University (LLB, BCL). Prior to law school, he studied and worked in various places, including in Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Japan. After law school, Professor Matt Malone practiced law full-time in California at Morrison & Foerster and Van Dermyden Makus where he represented and conducted investigations for a roster of clients ranging from start-ups to the world’s largest companies in the high-technology sector. He counselled on human resources matters for companies of diverse sizes and litigated employment disputes in various federal and state courts and agencies. He also spent time with a workplace investigations boutique, handling sensitive and high-profile workplace investigations attracting national media attention on a regular basis. He has also supported various LGBTQ+ causes through pro bono legal services.
He is called to the bar in British Columbia, California, and New York.