Dr. Sanaa Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. Her research interests are in money laundering, financial crime, financial regulation, criminal law, and human rights and surveillance, with a special focus on the analysis of the incentives underlying financial transactions and decisions to both evade rules and to decline to apply them.
Dr. Lyndsay Campbell is a legal historian in the Faculties of Law and Arts (History). Her research interests centre on conflicts over expression and the functioning of legal and political institutions in Canada and the wider Anglo-Atlantic world. She is the lead on the National Cybersecurity Consortium training grant Mobilizing Cybersecurity for Canada, held in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Gideon Christian is a leading Canadian scholar at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law. He holds the position of University Research Chair in AI & Law at the University of Calgary, where his research explores the legal implications of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Prior to his academic appointment, Dr. Christian worked as a technology lawyer with the federal Department of Justice. His expertise has informed national policy discussions, including invitations to provide expert testimony before a parliamentary committee of the House of Commons.
Dr. Gregory Hagen is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and a member of the Law Society of British Columbia. He is a member of the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance (ISPIA). His research interests lie primarily in intellectual property and technology law. His interests include: computer implemented inventions, pharmaceutical patents, technological neutrality in copyright, internet, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybersecurity. He also has interests in legal philosophy and theory.
Dr. Emily Laidlaw is the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), an Associate Member of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS). In addition to her academic work, she is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Consortium as well as the Canadian Internet Society. Her research centres on technology regulation, cybersecurity, and human rights, with particular emphasis on platform regulation, privacy, online harms, freedom of expression, and corporate governance.
Dr. Michael Nesbitt is the Associate Dean (Research) and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. He is an Executive Board member and Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS), where he co-teaches a course on 21st Century Security Issues. He is on the Editorial Board of the University of Calgary Press, the Law and Criminology Journal, and the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. In addition to his academic work, he also practices criminal law and advises on cybersecurity compliance and response as well as sanctions and the intersection of trade and national security. His research centres on Canadian and comparative criminal law and evidence, anti-terrorism laws, national security law and policy, research security, and autonomous (economic) sanctions.
Dr. Elizabeth Steyn is the Associate Dean (Graduate and Professional Programs) and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She is a Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS), a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Economies at the University of Johannesburg, and a Trustee-at-Large of the Foundation for Natural Resource and Energy Law (FNREL). She serves as a member of the Centre of Natural Resources and Energy Law (CIRL) Board , the University of Calgary Press Board, and the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law Advisory Committee. In addition to her academic work, she is also a member of the FNREL, the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), the Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute (NRLTI), the Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM), and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). Her research interests are in critical minerals, mining law, business and human rights, and Indigenous sacred sites, with special emphasis on the intersection of sustainable natural resource exploitation practices with responsible business conduct.
