Prof. Marina Pavlović is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society,an Associate Professor and the coordinator of the Law & Technology Option in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, at the University of Ottawa.
Professor Marina Pavolvić is a leading Canadian expert on consumer rights and an active voice for the public interest in the digital society. She has appeared in several interventions before the Supreme Court of Canada: as lead counsel or co-counsel for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic in NHK Spring v. Cheung, Uber v. Heller, Telus v. Wellman, Haaretz.com v. Goldhar, and Douez v. Facebook, and, with the Public Interest Law Centre, for a coalition of public interest organizations in International Air Transport Association v. Canadian Transportation Agency. She appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in the 2025 proceeding on broadband internet labels and the 2016–2017 Review of the Wireless Code, and the 2025 proceeding on broadband internet labels. She has also appeared before the House of Commons and Senate Committees, and the Canadian Transportation Agency on air passenger rights.
Professor Pavlović was appointed to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel by the Ministers of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Canadian Heritage in 2018 and to an Expert Panel on High-Throughput Networks for Rural and Remote Communities by the Council of Canadian Academies in August 2020.
An award-winning educator, Professor Pavlović has received several teaching prizes, including the 2018-2019 APUO University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2018-2019 University of Ottawa Excellence in Education Prize, and the 2015–2016 Common Law Section Excellence in Teaching Award. She also received the 2017–2018 Common Law Section Public Engagement Award: Public Education and Outreach.She held the 2025–2026 OBA Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism Research.
Professor Pavlović holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), an LL.M with a concentration in Law & Technology from the University of Ottawa and is called to the Ontario bar. She was a Gowlings Fellow in Technology Law in 2002. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor in 2007, she was an in-house counsel for a telecommunications company in Belgrade (Serbia), an of counsel with a law firm in Salzburg (Austria), where she practiced international commercial arbitration, and a Part-Time Professor at the Common Law Section (2004–2007).