About the CILP

The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) supports and facilitates the study of law and its relationship to technology, by sponsoring and cultivating research, teaching and knowledge exchange on law, legal theory, and policy related to technology, broadly understood.  As a scholarly research centre, the CILP is open to interdisciplinary approaches, including law’s dialogue with the Humanities.   The Centre faculty approach foundational, theoretical and topical issues concerning law and technology through the rubrics of law, philosophy, political science, economics and cultural studies, with particular expertise in intellectual property, cyberlaw, privacy, and biotechnology law. 

CILP Faculty

Abraham Drassinower
Director, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Chair in the Legal, Ethical and Cultural Implications of Technological Innovation

Lisa Austin
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Ariel Katz
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Trudo Lemmens
Associate Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine, University of Toronto

CILP Administration

Andrea Slane
Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy