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Michael Geist

Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School.

Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law, is a nationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen, is the editor of Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada and the Canadian Privacy Law Review (Butterworths), and is the author of the textbook Internet Law in Canada (Captus Press), which is now in its third edition. He is the author of the popular BNA's Internet Law News and maintains a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues.

Dr. Geist is actively involved in national Internet policy development and was a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam. He has received numerous awards for his work, including Canarie's IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada, and he was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2003.

Books by Michael Geist

The Future of Open Data

edited by Pamela Robinson & Teresa Scassa
series edited by Michael Geist
contributions by Tenille Brown, Haewon Chung, Sarah Greene, Peter Johnson, Elizabeth Judge, Tracey Lauriault, Ian Parfitt, Fernando Perini, Claus Rinner, Renee Sieber, Christine Varga & Lisa Ward Mather

Citizenship in a Connected Canada

A Research and Policy Agenda

edited by Elizabeth Dubois & Florian Martin-Bariteau
contributions by Kent Aitken, Jane Bailey, Megan Beretta, Jacquelyn Burkell, Amanda Clarke, Alexander Dirksen, Michael Geist, Alfred Hermida, Mike Morden, Marina Pavlović, Jonathon W. Penney, Adelina Petit-Vouriot, Priscilla Regan, Teresa Scassa, Leslie Regan Shade, Valerie Steeves & Mary Lynn Young

Law and the "Sharing Economy"

Regulating Online Market Platforms

edited by Derek McKee, Finn Makela & Teresa Scassa
contributions by Harry Arthurs, Francesco Ducci, Marie-Cécile Escande-Varniol, Vincent Gautrais, Michael Geist, Eran Kaplinsky, Nofar Sheffi, Sabrina Tremblay-Huet, Eric Tucker & Mariana Valverde

Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era

edited by Michael Geist

The Copyright Pentalogy

How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law

edited by Michael Geist

From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright"

Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda

edited by Michael Geist

In the Public Interest

The Future of Canadian Copyright Law

by (author) Michael Geist