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Selected publications

“The Evolving Role of AI in Legal Judgment” (forthcoming 2026)
Law, Innovation and Technology Vol 18 PDF

“Are Sexual Deepfakes a Crime in Canada?” (forthcoming 2025)
Criminal Law Quarterly Vol 73 PDF

“Too Dangerous to Deploy? The Challenge Language Models Pose to Regulating AI in Canada and the EU” (forthcoming 2025)
UBC Law Review PDF

“Intrinsic Human Equality: A Critical Overview of Recent and Historical Theory” (2025)
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 39:1 PDF

“What Is Most Bothersome About Section 33: Or What Hasn’t Yet Been Said” (2025)
Constitutional Forum 33:2 Vol 31 PDF

“Harm to Self-Identity: Reading Goffman to Reassess the Use of Surreptitious Recordings as Evidence” (2024)
Manitoba Law Review 46:4, 1 PDF

Search and Seizure, (Irwin Law 2023, with C. Hunt) details

“Must the Police Refuse to Look? Resolving the Emerging Conflict in Search and Seizure Over Civilian Disclosure of Digital Evidence” (2023)
McGill Law Journal 68:4 PDF

“The Policing of Large-Scale Protests in Canada: Why Canada Needs a Public Order Policing Act”
Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency, Volume 5: Policy Papers (February 2023) PDF

“Reasonable Apprehension Under Mental Health Law” (with J. Sanderson) (2022)
Queen’s Law Journal 48:2 PDF (Winner of the David Watson Memorial Award)

“Search Engines and Global Takedown Orders: Google v Equustek and the Future of Free Speech Online” (2020)
Osgoode Hall Law Journal 56:2, 231 PDF

“The Road Not Taken: Missing Powers to Compel Decryption in Bill C-59, Ticking-Bombs, and the Future of the Encryption Debate” (2019)
Alberta Law Review 57:1, 267 PDF

“The Demise of Rights as Trumps”
in Benjamin Goold & Liora Lazarus, eds, Security and Human Rights, 2nd edition (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019) PDF

“Does the State Have a Compelling Interest in Searching Device Data at the Border?” (2018)
Oxford University Comparative Law Forum 1 PDF, online

The Harbinger Theory: How the Post-9/11 Emergency Became Permanent and the Case for Reform (Oxford UP, 2015) details