Dr. Amy Salyzyn is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Amy Salyzyn is an expert in legal ethics, lawyer regulation, the use of technology in delivering legal services and access to justice. At the University of Ottawa, she teaches Torts and upper-year seminars in legal ethics and the use of AI in the legal profession.
Dr. Salyzyn is called to the bar in Ontario and is currently the Board Chair of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics.
Before coming to the University of Ottawa, Dr. Salyzyn served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and practiced at a Toronto litigation boutique. Her litigation practice included a wide variety of civil and commercial litigation matters including breach of contract, tort, professional negligence, securities litigation and employment law as well as administrative law matters.
Dr. Salyzyn received her J.S.D. from Yale Law School for her dissertation exploring the judicial regulation of lawyers in common law jurisdictions. She also received her LL.M. from Yale Law School and her J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School, where she was awarded the Dean’s Key upon graduation.