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Schulich School of Law

Suzie Dunn

Assistant Professor of Law; Interim Director, Law & Technology Institute

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Schulich School of Law , Law & Technology Institute

Email: suzie.dunn@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4373
Mailing Address: 
Room 418, Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Privacy Law
  • Torts
  • Law and Technology
  • Technology-facilitated gender-based violence
  • Equality and Human Rights Law
  • Digital evidence
  • Professional Responsibility

Education

  • BA (Capilano University)
  • JD (University of Ottawa)
  • LLM (University of Ottawa)

Bar Admission

  • Law Society of Ontario (2016)

Bio

Suzie Dunn the interim director of the听Law & Technology Institute听and an听assistant professor听at AV俱乐部鈥檚 Schulich School of Law. She teaches contracts, torts, privacy, law and technology, and legal ethics. She coached the winning 2021-2022 Harold G Fox Intellectual Property moot team. Her听听centers on the intersections of equality, technology and the law, with a specific focus on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and social media. She is a research partner on a four-year SSHRC funded research project on young people鈥檚 experiences with sexual violence online,听. She is also a Senior Fellow with the听Centre for International Governance Innovation where she led phase one of CIGI鈥檚听, and a member of thetechnology-facilitated violence committee.

Teaching

  • Contracts and Judicial Decision Making
  • Tort Law and Damage Compensation
  • Law and Technology
  • Privacy Law
  • Intro to Legal Ethics

Research Interests

Professor Dunn鈥檚 research primarily focuses on technology-facilitated violence, privacy torts, artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and intimate images.

Grants

  • 2025: Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Engage Grant Combatting Torture, Abuse, Gore, and More: Young People鈥檚 Exposure to Authentic Violent Content Online
  • 2024: AV俱乐部 Research Centres and Institutes, Next Wave Grant, Tech Tok Speaker Series
  • 2023: Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Connections Grant, Mobilizing Tools and Community to Resist Corporate Influence in Critical Technology Research
  • 2022: Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Knowledge Synthesis Grant,Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence among Young People: Synthesizing the Research to Promote Digital Safety in Canada
  • 2022: AV俱乐部 Research Centres and Institutes, Next Wave Grant, Tech, From Inequalities to Justice: Law and Ethics of AI & Technology
  • 2022: Research Nova Scotia, New Health Investigator Grant, Identifying the Prevalence and Impact of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence with a Focus on Access to services
  • 2021: Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant, Combatting Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Supporting Young People in Schools, Social Relationships and on Social Media
  • 2018: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Engage Grant, A Feminist and Indigenous Examination of the National Inquiry: Lessons and Next Steps (Symposium)

Selected Awards & Honours

  • 2021: Greenberg Prize for Feminist Research
  • 2021: University of Ottawa Part-time Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2020: 脡cole Polytechnique Commemorative Award, Canadian Federation of University Women
  • 2019: Visiting Scholar at New York Law School
  • 2019: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Selected Publications

  • Suzie Dunn, 鈥淒eepfakes: Gender, Privacy, and Synthetic Intimate Images鈥� (2024) 69 McGill Law Journal.
  • Jane Bailey & Suzie Dunn, 鈥淭he More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Recurring Themes in Tech-facilitated Sexual Violence Over Time鈥� Criminalising Intimate Image Abuse, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
  • Suzie Dunn, Tracy Vaillancourt, & Heather Brittain, 鈥淪upporting Safer Digital Spaces: An International Examination of Gender, Sexual Orientation and Technology-Facilitated Violence鈥� CIGI Supporting a Safer Internet Final Report (Windsor: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2023).
  • Suzie Dunn & Moira Aikenhead, 鈥淥n the Internet No One Knows You are a Dog: Contested Authorship of Digital Evidence in Cases of Gender-based Violence鈥� (2022) Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.
  • Suzie Dunn, 鈥淚s it Actually Violence? Framing Technology Facilitated Harms as Violence鈥�, in eds Jane Bailey, Asher Flynn, & Nicola Henry, The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse (Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2021).

Service & Activity

  • Interim Director, Law & Technology Institute
  • Educational Review Committee, The Walrus magazine
  • Technology-Facilitated Violence Working Group Member, Women鈥檚 Legal Education and Action Fund
  • Advisory Committee on Ending Gender-Based Digital Harm, Canadian Women鈥檚 Foundation
  • Working Group Member for the Roadmap for the Canadian National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence, Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada
  • Expert Group to Support a Handbook on Existing International and Regional Legal and Policy Frameworks Addressing Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Association for Progressive Communications
  • Technology-facilitated Gender Based Violence Research Priority Setting Advisory Group, Sexual Violence Research Initiative
  • Expert Advisor, Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment & Abuse Advisory Group