 The PIPEDA project team is made up faculty and students from the Univsersity of Toronto's Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information Studies. Click on one of the team member's link below for more information.
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Rajen Akalu is the lab manager for the BUL Innovation Law and Policy Lab. Rajen is responsible for the formulation and implementation strategies associated with the lab. Mr. Akalu represents the law lab to various stakeholder groups such as the legal profession, policy makers, government officials and donors. |
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Professor Clement joined the Faculty of Information Studies in 1989
after teaching computer science at York University for five years. His
research interests are in the social implications of information
technology and human-centred systems development. Current Research
focuses on public interest information policies for guiding the
development of Canada's information infrastructure.
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Sooin Kim joined the University of Toronto law school as the Centre for Innovation Law __ Policy Librarian/Administrator in April of 2003. She has over three years experience as a Reference Librarian at the law firm of Fasken Martineau, where she provided customized legal reference and research services, orientation and legal research training, and developed extensive web-based resources and specialized legislation databases. Sooin received a Master of Information Studies degree at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto in 2000. She also has an administrative background as Operations Manager for a real estate consulting firm where she managed several sales offices, conducted market research and organized events to market the firm to client groups. |
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Aniz Alani is a second year student in the J.D. program at the Faculty of
Law. Aniz is particularly interested in the interjurisdictional issues
presented by Canadian private sector privacy legislation. |
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Barbara Bressolles is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto
LL.M. program. Her research interests lie in consumer protection
in the online environment, particularly online contracting and Internet
privacy issues. Her LL.M. thesis examined ways in which contract
law may accommodate unexpected transactions concluded through the use
of autonomous software agents. Barbara holds a B.A. (Education)
and an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and
is admitted to practice law in New Zealand.
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Lisa Austin is currently Assistant Professor at the University of
Toronto, Faculty of Law. Her research interests include privacy issues,
property law and the social implications of technology.
She is also completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of
Toronto, working in the area of philosophy of technology. Prior to
resuming her doctoral work, she served as a Law Clerk to Mr. Justice
Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada (1998-1999). |
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Nadia Caidi is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of
Information Studies. Her research interests include information policy
and social/community informatics. One of her current research projects
on "Framing 'Information' and 'Access' Post 9/11" has been awarded a
three-year grant (2004-2007) from SSHRC. Recent publications have
appeared in "The Information Society Journal", "Library Quarterly" and
"Library and Information Science Research". Dr. Caidi holds a Masters
in Communications from the University Grenoble 3 (France) and a MLIS
and Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). |
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Dave is a 1st year graduate student in the Faculty of Information Studies' Master of Information Studies program (MISt). Dave has a Bachelor of Computer Science from Dalhousie University. Prior to coming to the University of Toronto, he worked as a software programmer for several years. Most recently, he spent six months in the Republic of Ghana (West Africa), helping the justice system in that country build a database to improve the collection of judicial statistics. |
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Robert is a researcher with the Adaptive Technology Resource
Centre/Resource Centre for Academic Technology, University of Toronto,
and a member of the University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design
Institute. His research focuses on community informatics and the design
of ICT systems that enhance community social, economic, and political
development. http://luke.rcat.utoronto.ca/ |
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Sapna Mahboobani has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the
University of Bombay, and has worked as a software consultant in the US. She
is currently a first year graduate student at the Faculty of Information
Studies at the University of Toronto. She will be pursuing the joint MISt/JD
degree with the Faculty of Information Studies and the Faculty of Law. |
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Andrea Slane B.A. (High Honours) (Rutgers) 1986, PhD (Comparative
Literature) (UCSD) 1995, J.D. (Honours) (Toronto) 2003, is a visiting
fellow at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Her current
projects examines legal approaches to unsolicited bulk email (spam) and
child luring on the Internet, with regard to how implemented and
proposed solutions adhere to varying conceptions of democracy.
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