Prof. Marina Pavlović is Faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, at the University of Ottawa.
Professor Marina Pavolvić’s research focuses on consumer rights in the contemporary cross-border digital society and technology policy and regulation. Professor Pavolvić was the lead counsel for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, as an intervener before the Supreme Court of Canada in Uber v Heller and Wellman v Telus, and was a co-counsel in Douez v Facebook and Haaretz.com v Goldhar. She appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in the 2016˗2017 Review of the Wireless Code. Professor Pavolvić has also appeared before the House and Senate Committees and the Canadian Transportation Agency on Air passenger rights.
Professor Pavlović was appointed to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel by the Ministers of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Canadian Heritage in 2018 and to an Expert Panel on High-Throughput Networks for Rural and Remote Communities by the Council of Canadian Academies in August 2020. Professor Pavlović has received the 2018-2019 APUO University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2018-2019 University of Ottawa Excellence in Education Prize, and the 2015–2016 Common Law Section Excellence in Teaching Award. She also received the 2017–2018 Common Law Section Public Engagement Award: Public Education and Outreach.
Prior to joining the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor in 2007, Professor Pavlović was a Gowlings Fellow in Technology Law in 2002. Professor Pavlović was an in-house counsel for a telecommunication company in Belgrade (Serbia), an of-counsel with a law firm in Salzburg (Austria), where she practiced in the area of international commercial arbitration and was a Part-Time Professor at the Common Law Section. Professor Pavlović holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), an LL.M with a concentration in Law & Technology from the University of Ottawa and is called to the Ontario Bar.