2nd International Symposium on Online Child Exploitation
May 7, 2007, University of Toronto
Lisa Austin is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McMaster, and a law and doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Austin was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2006.
Professor Austin's research and teaching interests include property, privacy, the legal regulation of information and the ethical and social justice issues raised by emerging technologies. She is currently developing work on issues such as the challenges that information technology poses to our conception of privacy, and what theory of law is most responsive to the needs of a technological society.
Lee Ann Chapman (B.A. LL.B) is a staff lawyer at Justice for Children and Youth, a Legal Aid Ontario clinic mandated to promote and protect the legal rights of young people. At the clinic Lee Ann represents children and youth at all levels of court in matters concerning criminal youth justice, human rights, education, mental health, support and child welfare. The clinic also provides public legal education to youth and youth-serving agencies, as well as work in policy and law reform. She is a member of several community associations concerned with the rights of children. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto law school.
Nicholas Sammond is Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. His book, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005), received the 2006 Katherine Singer Kovacs award from SCMS. He is also the editor of Steel Chair to the Head: the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling (Duke University Press, 2005) and articles in such journals as Continuum, Television Quarterly, and Camera Obscura. Babes in Tomorrowland is a history of 20th century American childhood and its relation to popular media about and for children. Sammond’s current work examines the place of blackface minstrelsy in the origins of American commercial animation.
Kimberly Scanlan is a Detective Sergeant with over 20 years as a police officer with the Toronto Police Service. In July 2006, she became the Officer in Charge of the renowned Toronto Police Service -- Child Exploitation Section. She also oversees the Special Victims Section, which is responsible for investigative support and community liaison for Juvenile Prostitution and Adult Sex Trade Workers. Kimberly has previously worked in both uniform and investigative roles, as the Service Domestic Violence Coordinator and as a Police Trainer for Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Interviewing, Ethics and Diversity. In the past 6 months, Kimberly has been invited to Ottawa on two separate occasions to make presentations to the Standing Committees on Human Trafficking and the Age of Protection Legislation. Kimberly represents the Toronto Police Service on the Attorney General's Task Force on Internet Crimes Against Children and National Internet Child Exploitation Steering Committee.
Alex Smith (B.A., M.A., L.L.B.) is currently the Director of Law and Technology for the Ministry of the Attorney General, Criminal Law Division. Upon graduating from the University of Windsor Law School in 1981 (Dean’s Honour Roll, CCH Prize for Legal Writing), Alex completed his Articles at the Office of the Crown Attorney in London. Following his call to the Bar in 1983, he was hired as an Assistant Crown Attorney in Lindsay. In 1986 he transferred to the Brampton Crown’s Office and in 1989 joined the Guelph Crown Attorney’s Office where he remained until 2001 when he was appointed to his current position. Alex currently manages information technology issues for the Criminal Law Division. He Chairs the Attorney General’s Task Force on Internet Crimes Against Children and the Criminal Law Division’s e-Disclosure Committee and participates in a number of other committees at the provincial and federal levels. Alex has organized and participated in numerous educational programs as a panellist or lecturer and is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs. In addition to the responsibilities associated with his current position, Alex continues to represent the Crown in all levels of trial and appeal courts.