Research

My research is available, mostly for free, on SSRN and Google Scholar, or the publisher links below.

Data harms

Articles

• ​​The Overstated Cost of AI Fairness in Criminal Justice, 100 Indiana L. J. 1431 (2025) (with Warut Khern-am-nuai).
  Available at ILJ, SSRN.​​
• Certifying Privacy Class Actions, 37 Harvard J. L. Tech. 1149 (2023).
  Available at JOLT, SSRN.
• Privacy Standing, 2022 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1367 (2022).
  Available at UILR, SSRN.
  ​Review: Jotwell.
• Beyond Data Ownership, 43 Cardozo L. Rev. 501 (2021).
  Available at CLR, SSRN.
• AI in Judicial Decision-making, 102 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. 21 (2021).
  Also published in AI & the Law in Canada (Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa eds., 2021).
  Available at SSRN, book.
• Nothing to Hide, but Something to Lose, 70.1 U. Toronto L.J. 64 (2020).
  Available at UTLJ, SSRN (preprint).
• Algorithmic Discrimination is an Information Problem, 70 Hastings L.J. 1389 (2019).
  Available at HLJ, SSRN, ULaval.
• Antidiscriminatory Privacy, 72 SMU L. Rev. 139 (2019).
  Available at SMU, SSRN.
• Privacy Harms, 69 Hastings L.J. 1039 (2018) (with Adriana Robertson).
  Available at HLJ, SSRN, PLT.

Chapters

• Cy Pres Settlements in Privacy Class Actions, in Class Actions in Privacy Law (Ignacio N. Cofone ed., 2020) (with Thomas Kadri).
  Available at Routledge, SSRN (preprint).
  Translation: Acuerdos Cy Pres en acciones de clase de privacidad, 2.1 Rev. Jur. Austral 33 (2021).

regulation

Articles

• Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law, 110 Iowa L.R. Online 217 (2025) (with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes).
  Available at ILR, SSRN.
• ​Ethical Surveillance in Vaccine Passports, 45 Fordham Int'l L. J. 621 (2022).
  ​Available at FILJ, SSRN.​​​
• ​Immunity Passports and Contact Tracing Surveillance, 24 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 176 (2021).
  ​Available at STLR, SSRN.
• Strategic Games and Algorithmic Secrecy, 64.4 McGill L.J. 623 (2019) (with Katherine Strandburg).
  ​Available at MLJ, SSRN (preprint).
• Servers and Waiters: What Matters in the Law of A.I., 21 Stan. Tech. L.R. 167 (2018).
  ​Available at STLR, SSRN, IPCprof.
  Review: Regulatory Review.
• Consumer Privacy in a Behavioral World, 69 Hastings L.J. 1471 (2018) (with Adriana Robertson).
  ​Available at HLJ, SSRN, FTC.
• The Dynamic Effect of Information Privacy Law, 18 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 517 (2017).
  Available at MJLST, SSRN.​​
• A Healthy Amount of Privacy: Quantifying Privacy Concerns in Medicine, 65 Clev. St. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
  Available at CSLR, SSRN.
• ​The Way the Cookie Crumbles: Online Tracking meets Behavioral Economics, 25.1 Int’l J. L. & Info. Tech. 38 (2016).
  Available at IJLIT, SSRN (preprint).
• Google v. Spain: a Right to be Forgotten?, 15 Chi.-Kent J. Int’l & Comp. L. 1 (2015) [comment].
  Available at CK, SSRN.

Chapters​​​

• Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada, in Philipp Hacker and Andreas Engel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI (Oxford University Press: London, forthcoming 2024).
• Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy, in Alberto Quintavalla and Jeroen Temperman (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (Oxford University Press: London, 2023) (with Alessia Zornetta).
  Available at OUP.​​
• The Right to be Forgotten in Peace Processes, in The Right to be Forgotten: A Canadian & Comparative Perspective (Ignacio N. Cofone ed., 2020) (with Catalina Turriago).
  Available at Routledge, SSRN (preprint).
• Privacy, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., 2018).
  Updated: Privacy, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., 2nd ed., 2021).
  Available at ELE, SSRN (preprint).​

Reports​

• COVID Alert's Privacy Promises and Surveillance Risks, Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy (8 January 2021).
  Available at CMTD.
• Policy Proposals for PIPEDA Reform to Address Artificial Intelligence, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (12 November 2020).
  Available at OPC, SSRN.

side projects

Articles​

• How to Choose a Law Review: An Empirical Study, 71 J. Legal Ed. 311 (2022). (with Pierre-Jean Malé)
  Available at​ JLE, SSRN.
• Majority Rules in Constitutional Referendums, 70.3 Kyklos 402 (2017) (with Stephan Michel).
  Available at Kyklos, SSRN (paywall), SSRN (preprint).​
• The Limits of Probabilistic Causality in Law, 15.1 Global Jurist 29 (2015).
  Available at GJ, SSRN.
  Translation: Los límites de la causalidad probabilística en derecho, 2.2 Rev. Jur. Austral 515 (2021).

Chapters​

• Commitment or Paternalism? The Case of Unamendability, in An Unamendable Constitution? Unamendability in Constitutional Democracies (Richard Albert ed., 2018) (with Stephan Michel).
  ​Available at Springer.​

Public writing

data harms

Op-eds​

• Your chatbot is not your friend, The Globe & Mail (August 27, 2025).
• The 23andMe data breach reveals the vulnerabilities of our interconnected data, The Conversation (October 25, 2023).​​
• Weighing COVID Immunity Passes and Contact-Tracing Surveillance, Policy Magazine (April 15, 2021).

​​Blogs

• Why AI Harm Escapes Accountability in the New Information Economy (AI Ethics at Oxford Blog, 15 May 2025).
• AI, Privacy, and the Politics of Accountability Part 2: Privacy Harm in the AI Economy (Balkinization blog, 16 February 2025).​
• Harm and Power in the Information Economy (Fifteen Eighty Four - Cambridge University Press, 12 November 2024).
• Plus ça change: Privacy, Corporate Interests, and the Design of Data-Extractive Tech (New Rambler, 3 February 2021) (with Adelise Lalande).

regulation

Op-eds​​​

• Meta charging European users to remove ads is a privacy red herring, The Conversation (December 18, 2023).
• Updating Canada’s Privacy Act for Artificial Intelligence, Policy Magazine (February 4, 2021) (with Ana Qarri and Jeremy Wiener).

Blogs

• AI, Privacy, and the Politics of Accountability Part 1: Post-traditionalist Privacy for AI (Balkinization blog, 15 February 2025)
• The Paris AI Summit: A Missed Opportunity for Global AI Governance (AI Ethics At Oxford Blog, 13 February 2025) (with John Tasioulas and Caroline Green)

university education

​Op-eds

• Why I encourage my students to use ChatGPT, The Globe & Mail (April 1, 2024)​.
• Le gouvernement québécois pourrait manquer son coup, La Presse (October 24, 2023).
• Looking back, looking forward: 2SLGBTQ+ pride and presence in Montreal at McGill, McGill Reporter (July 27, 2022) (with Angela Campbell and Andrea Clegg).