There are two instructors for this course. The primary classroom instructor for 2013-2014 is Professor Power. Both instructors will be involved in administration, grading and creating course material.
Biographies:
Michael Power is one of Canada¹s leading authorities on privacy and data protection law. A graduate of Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Law, Michael has extensive experience as a lawyer, advising clients in both the public and private sectors on privacy, corporate, governance, and technology-related issues. After nearly a decade with the federal Foreign Affairs and Justice Departments, he went on to be a partner at Gowling, LaFleur Henderson, and later, Vice President of Privacy and Security at eHealth Ontario.
In addition to being a sought-after speaker and panelist, he writes and blogs extensively on privacy and information security issues. He is the author of the Access to Information and Privacy Title of Halsbury's Laws of Canada and co-author of Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director’s Guide to Data Governance. His latest book, The Law of Privacy, was published in June 2013.
James Williams, BA, BSc, JD, MSc, PhD (cand).
James Williams is a senior software engineer at Google’s Mountain View campus, where he works on distributed computing, privacy engineering and legal informatics. A graduate of the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, he has extensive experience with information security and privacy. In addition to his standing as a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto, he has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers, including articles on health information systems, software engineering, health law and privacy. His current research interests include algorithms, machine learning, simulation and scientific computing.
At the time of writing, he is collaborating with project teams at the Stanford Design School and Stanford Law School on legal information systems, working with civil engineering researchers on large-scale system simulation, and designing a new law course for Osgoode. Additional research projects include papers on financial regulation, resilience engineering and complex adaptive systems science. He is a member of the MIT Big Data Privacy working group.
At the time of writing, he is collaborating with project teams at the Stanford Design School and Stanford Law School on legal information systems, working with civil engineering researchers on large-scale system simulation, and designing a new law course for Osgoode. Additional research projects include papers on financial regulation, resilience engineering and complex adaptive systems science. He is a member of the MIT Big Data Privacy working group.
Contact Information:
The instructors can be contacted via email at the following addresses:
