Prof. Jane Bailey is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Full Professor within the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
Professor Jane Bailey co-leads The eQuality Project, a $2.5 million, 7-year SSHRC funded partnership initiative focused on young people’s experiences with digital technologies and the impact of corporate profiling practices on young people and their relationships. She leads the project stream focused on technology-facilitated violence. She is also a co-investigator on the Autonomy Through Cyberjustice Technologies Project, another $2.5 million, 5-year SSHRC-funded partnership initiative focused on the use of AI in the justice system. She co-leads Working Group 3, which is investigating the social and ethical implications of AI.
Professor Bailey is a member of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Advisory Council, was part of the 2023 Canadian Delegation for the UN Commission on the Status of Women and was a member of the Royal Society College of New Scholars from 2016-2023.
Professor Bailey holds a Bachelor of Administrative Studies (Trent), a Master of Industrial Relations (Queens), an LLB (Queens), and an LLM (Toronto). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Ottawa in 2002, she articled at the Supreme Court of Canada for Sopinka J. (as he then was) and went on to be a litigator at Torys LLP in Toronto, where she acted as co-counsel for a complainant in the first internet hate speech case to be heard by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. She has appeared as lead counsel for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic on two of its intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in the R v. Jarvis and R v Downes voyeurism cases. She co-edited, with Dr. Asher Flynn (Monash) and Dr. Nicola Henry (RMIT), an online open access publication entitled The Emerald International Handbook on Technology Facilitated Violence and Abuse, published in 2021.