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Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Dr Scassa’s work is often significantly interdisciplinary in approach. She is currently involved in projects that explore the governance of AI in health care, health data justice, privacy issues with publicly accessible data, data protection law reform in Canada, and AI regulation. Dr Scassa serves in a volunteer capacity on numerous advisory bodies, including the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Strategic Advisory Council, Ontario’s AI Expert Working Group, and the Ontario Health Data Council. She is also a board member of the Health Data Research Network. Dr Scassa is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa.

Over the course of her career, Dr Scassa has written widely in the areas of privacy law, the regulation of artificial intelligence, data governance and intellectual property law. In 2024 she was awarded the Piccasso Award in the category of Privacy Leader Academia/Thought Leader. Many of her published papers can be found on SSRN.com. Her blog on current issues in her field of expertise can be found at: or at .

• Canadian Intellectual Property Law:  Cases, Notes and Materials, 3d ed., Emond Montgomery Publications, 2022. (General Co-editors: Graham Reynolds & Teresa Scassa; Co-authors: Gregory Hagen, Cameron Hutchison, Graham Reynolds, Teresa Scassa, Margaret Ann Wilkinson and Teshager Dagne. 816 pp.
• The Future of Open Data (Pamela Robinson and Teresa Scassa, eds.), University of Ottawa Press 2022. 
• Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Florian Martin-Bariteau and Teresa Scassa, eds.), LexisNexis, 2021.
• Digital Commerce in Canada (by Michael Deturbide and Teresa Scassa), LexisNexis, 2020.
• Law and the Sharing Economy: Regulating Online Market Platforms.      Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, November 27, 2018. (Co-edited with Derek McKee and Finn Makela).
• Canadian Trademark Law, 2d Edition, Lexis Nexis Canada. 2015. 878 pp
• Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization, Irwin Law, 2014 (Co-authored with Stephen Coughlan, Robert Currie and Hugh Kindred. All authors are equal contributors. 372 pp.
• Intellectual Property Law for the 21^st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Irwin Law, 2014. (Co-edited with B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau and Madelaine Saginur. All editors are equal contributors) 561pp.

• Teresa Scassa and Daniel Kim, “AI Medical Scribes: Addressing Privacy and AI Risks with an Emergent Solution to Primary Care Challenges”, forthcoming, (2025) 3 TMU Law Review, .
• Teresa Scassa, “A Reasonable Apprehension of AI Bias: Lessons from R v. RDS”, (2024) 69:4 McGill Law Journal 467-487, .
• Donald J. Willison, Danielle M. Nash, Sarah E. Bota, Samar Almadhoun, Teresa Scassa, Amit X. Garg, Kidney Patient and Donor Alliance of Canada, Ann Young, “Public and Patient Perspectives on the Use of Clinical and Administrative Health Data to Identify and Contact People at Risk of Future Illness – the Case of Chronic Kidney Disease”, PLOS ONE 19(3):  2024, e0298382.  .
• Teresa Scassa, “Sovereignty and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence”, (2023) 71 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 214-229.
• Teresa Scassa, “Public Sector Use of Private Sector Personal Data: Toward Best Practices”, (2024) 47:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 652-680, .
• Guilda Rostama and Teresa Scassa, “The Future of Data Protection Enforcement in Canada: Lessons from the GDPR”, (2023) 21:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 1-22. .
• Teresa Scassa, “Regulating AI in Canada: A Critical Look at the Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act”, (2023) 101 Canadian Bar Review 1-30, .
• Peter Johnson & Teresa Scassa, “Who owns the map? Data sovereignty and government spatial data collection, use, and dissemination”, (2023) 27:1 Transactions in GIS 275-289 ..
• Teresa Scassa, Pamela Robinson and Ryan Mosoff, “The Datafication of Wastewater: Legal, Ethical and Civic Considerations”, (2022) TechReg 23-35, .  
• Bradley Henderson, Colleen Flood and Teresa Scassa, “Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Will the Law Protect Us from Algorithmic Bias?”, (2021) 19(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 475-504.
• Teresa Scassa, “Administrative Law and the Governance of Automated Decision-Making: A Critical Look at Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making”, (2021) 54:1 University of British Columbia Law Review 251-298, online: .
• Teresa Scassa, “COVID-19 Contact Tracing: From Local to Global and Back Again”, (2021) 10:2 International Journal of E-Planning Research 45-58, online: .  
• Teresa Scassa, “Designing Data Governance for Data Sharing: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto”, (2020) Technology & Regulation 44-56. (Special Issue: Governing Data as a Resource), online: .
• Teresa Scassa, Amy Salyzn, Jena McGill and Suzanne Bouclin, “Developing Privacy Best Practices for Direct-to-Public Tech Tools: Observations and Lessons Learned”, (2020) 18:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology,  .
• Teresa Scassa & Merlynda Vilain, “Governing Smart Data in the Public Interest: Lessons From Ontario’s Smart Metering Entity”, July 10, 2019, CIGI Research Paper #221, available at: .
• Teresa Scassa, (2019) "Ownership and control over publicly accessible platform data", Online Information Review, Vol. 43 No. 6, pp. 986-1002. .
• Teresa Scassa “Moving on From the Ombuds Model for Data Protection in Canada”, (2019) 17 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 90-98. 
• Caren Cooper, Lea Shanley, Teresa Scassa, and Effi Vayena, 2019. “Project Categories to Guide Institutional Oversight of Responsible Conduct of Scientists Leading Citizen Science in the United States”, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1): 7, pp. 1–9. DOI: .
• Teresa Scassa, “Data Ownership”, CIGI Papers No. 187, September 2018, available at:    (29pp).
• Teresa Scassa, “Law Enforcement in the Age of Big Data and Surveillance Intermediaries: Transparency Challenges”, (2017) 14:2 SCRIPTed 239  DOI: 10.2966/scrip.140217.239
• Teresa Scassa, “Sharing Data in the Platform Economy: A Public Interest Argument for Access to Platform Data”, (2017) 50(4) University of British Columbia Law Rev. 1017-1071. .

• Peter Johnson, Renee Sieber, Teresa Scassa, Monica Stephens, Pamela Robinson, “The Cost(s) of Geospatial Open Data”, (2017) 21 Transactions in GIS :434–445..
   

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