Canadian Hub on Technology, Security & Law

Dr. Sanaa Ahmed joined the University of Calgary after completing a doctorate at York University and a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University. Her research is on money laundering, financial crime, financial regulation, criminal law, and human rights and surveillance. Her research entails analyses of the incentives underlying financial transactions and decisions both to 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. Greg Hagen is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Law Society of B.C. His research interests lie primarily in intellectual property and technology law. His current research projects in the cybersecurity area include the use of anonymous credentials to satisfy anti-money laundering objectives, protecting democracy from cyber threats, regulating AI-generated disinformation, and regulating secure carbon credit tokens.

Dr. Emily Laidlaw is a Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Laidlaw is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Consortium.

Dr. Michael Nesbitt is a professor of law at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law, where he is also the Associate Dean, Research, and Director of Graduate Programs, as well as a Fellow with the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS). Michael researches, publishes, and teaches in the areas of national security, cybersecurity, criminal law, Canadian sanctions, anti-terrorism laws, supply chain compliance and import/export restrictions. He is actively recruiting graduate students at the LLM (law), Masters (CMSS), and PhD (both law and CMSS) levels.

Bio coming soon!

Bio coming soon!