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Ignacio Cofone

Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law and Data Governance

New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Room 615
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-6271 [Office]
ignacio.cofone [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

Ignacio Cofone


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Biography

Ignacio Cofone is the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance at the Faculty of Law, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence Regulation andPrivacy Law. His research focuses on law reform for privacy and A.I., exploring how the law should adapt to technological and economic change. His current projects examine liability for privacy harm and A.I. discrimination.

While at McGill, professor Cofone was a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar (2020-2021) and received the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Charles Gonthier Fellowship (2019), Future of Privacy Forum Best Privacy Papers for Policymakers award (2019), Council of Europe Stefano Rodota Award Special Mention (2021), Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Honorable Mention (2022), and Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher (2023). He held visiting positions at the Universities of Oxford, St. Gallen, Bar-Ilan, and Di Tella. Previously, he was a research fellow at the NYU Information Law Institute, a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and a legal advisor for the City of Buenos Aires. He obtained a joint Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hamburg University and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School.

Recent publications

  • Certifying Privacy Class Actions, 37.3Harvard Journal of Law and Technology1 (2023).
  • How to Choose a Law Review: An EmpiricalStudy, 71.2Journal of Legal Education311 (2023) (with Pierre-Jean Malé)
  • "", 2022 University of Illinois Law Review1367 (2022).

Recent media mentions

  • Joe Castaldo, , The Globe and Mail (April 18, 2023).
  • Kiernan Green, , CBC News (October 23, 2022).
  • Manjula Selvarajah, “,” CBC Radio (Nov. 8, 2021)
  • Angelo Gio Mateo & Aliya Bhatia, “,” The Toronto Star (Jul. 29, 2021)
  • David Uberti, “,” The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 25, 2020)

Education

  • JSD, Yale Law School, 2018
  • LLM, Yale Law School, 2016
  • PhD (rer.pol.), Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hamburg University, 2015
  • MA, University of Bologna, 2012
  • LLB, Austral University, 2010

Employment

  • Canada Research Chair in A.I. Law & Data Governance, 㽶Ƶ Faculty of Law, 2021-
  • Associate Professor, 㽶Ƶ Faculty of Law, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor, 㽶Ƶ Faculty of Law, 2018-2023
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, NYU Information Law Institute, 2017-2018
  • Resident Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 2015-2017
  • Legal Advisor, Government of the City of Buenos Aires, 2010-2011

Areas of Interest

Privacy Law, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy, Anti-discrimination, Behavioral Economics

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