Commentary and Reviews
“Canada’s Lawful Access Bill: Heavy on Secrecy, Light on Accountability”
CIGI Online (15 July 2025)
“Should We Restrict the Use of AI in Law School?”
Slaw (1 July 2025)
“The proposed Strong Borders Act gives police new invasive search powers that may breach Charter right”
The Conversation (5 June 2025)
“Canada Is a Signatory to the First Global Treaty on AI: Why That Matters”
CIGI Online (17 March 2025)
“Jevons Paradox Makes Regulating AI Sustainability Imperative”
Tech Policy Press (11 March 2025)
“Is a Legal AI Breakthrough in Sight?”
CBA National Magazine (13 February 2025)
“The Paris Summit Marks a Tipping Point on AI’s Safety and Sustainability”
The Conversation (12 February 2025)
“AI’s Impact on Law: Why the Transformation Narrative Is Overstated”
Slaw (31 December 2024)
“Canadian News Media are Suing OpenAI for Copyright Infringement, But Will They Win?”
The Conversation (1 December 2024)
“Google’s AI Podcasts Signal a New Era in Media”
CIGIonline (14 November 2024)
“The Reasons for Shutting Down TikTok in Canada Appear Tenuous at Best”
The Conversation (11 November 2024)
“Why new AI Tools for Legal Research Fail to Deliver the Goods”
Canadian Lawyer (8 November 2024)
“Apple Intelligence Will Help AI Become As Commonplace As Word Processing”
The Conversation (21 October 2024)
“What Made-in-Canada Legal AI Can and Can’t Do Well”
CBA National Magazine (9 October 2024)
“Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media — or the Opposite?”
CIGIonline (22 July 2024)
“The Case for Mandating Finer-Grained Control Over Social Media Algorithms”
Tech Policy Press (12 July 2024)
“The Online Harms Act Should Target Social Media’s Greatest Harm”
Policy Options (30 May 2024)
“Is AI About To Replace All Human Writing? Not So Fast”
Newsweek (25 April 2024)
“Why Ontario School Boards Are Suing Social Media Platforms for Causing an Attention Crisis”
The Conversation (29 March 2024)
“Does TikTok Pose a Security Threat to Canadians?”
The Conversation (15 March 2024)
“Are AI Language Models Too Dangerous to Deploy? Who Can Tell?”
CIGI Online (18 May 2023)
“It’s Not the End of Privacy Yet in Canada, But the Threat Remains”
The Conversation (17 April 2023)
Review of Kate Eichhorn, “Content” 25(1)
New Media & Society (2023) PDF
“The Great Unread: On William Deresiewicz’s The Death of the Artist”
Los Angeles Review of Books (13 Oct 2020)
“Is Password Compulsion Constitutional in Canada? Two Views”
The Advocate (July 2019) (with M. Putnam)
“Compelling People to Reveal Their Passwords Is Posing a Challenge to Police and Courts”
Salon (26 May 2019)
“The Big Fail: The Internet Hasn’t Helped Democracy”
National Post (15 October 2018)