Ignacio Cofone wins Principal鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor Ignacio Cofone has received the 海角社区 Principal Prize鈥檚 for Outstanding Emerging Researchers. He was presented with the award at the Law Convocation Ceremony on 31 May.
Ignacio Cofone is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law and holds the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law and Data Governance. A world-leading scholar of the law of privacy and artificial intelligence, his research focuses on data harms and on algorithmic decision-making. In his current projects, he examines how to evaluate privacy class actions and how to regulate algorithmic discrimination.
Professor Cofone鈥檚 research pays special attention to law reform. In 2020, for example, he was invited by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to author setting out the direction of the most significant reform to federal privacy law of the last two decades. This year, the Parliament of Canada is discussing a reform proposal that incorporates most of the report鈥檚 principal recommendations.
Professor Cofone is the author of , scheduled to be published by Cambridge University Press in December 2023. In this monograph, he tackles the pressing topic of digital harms to privacy by tech companies, proposing a legal framework to introduce meaningful accountability in data governance and a path for law reform to recognize the value of privacy.
鈥淭his well-deserved recognition of our outstanding colleague couldn鈥檛 be timelier, as all areas of society grapple with the implications of recent AI developments,鈥� said Dean Robert Leckey, Ad. E. 鈥淧rofessor Cofone鈥檚 ambitious project to maximize the benefits of new AI technologies while protecting citizens鈥� rights promises to make an exceptional contribution to the social good.鈥�
