Suzie Dunn is an Associate member of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and an Assistant Professor of Law at Dalhousie University. She is also a PhD in Law candidate at the Centre, under the supervision of Prof. Jane Bailey.
Suzie Dunn was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship for her PhD research. Her research centers on the intersections of gender, equality, technology and the law, focusing on the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, deepfakes, and impersonation in digital spaces.
Suzie Dunn is also a researcher with The eQuality Project, developing a case law database project examining technology-facilitated violence in the global south. She currently sits on the advisory committee of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, which addresses issues related to technology-facilitated violence. She was part of the legal team that supported CIPPIC’s intervention in R v Jarvis at the Supreme Court of Canada. This was a key case in the jurisprudence related to privacy and image-based abuse.
Suzie Dunn joined Dalhousie University as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2021. In 2018, she worked as a policy advisor with the Digital Inclusion Lab at Global Affairs Canada, drafting two international commitments to end gender-based violence in digital contexts, including the G7’s “Charlevoix Commitment to End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Abuse and Harassment in Digital Contexts” and the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s resolution titled “Accelerating Efforts to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Digital Contexts”, both of which were adopted that year.