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The Law Commission of Ontario is Ontario’s leading law reform agency. The LCO provides independent, balanced and authoritative advice on complex legal policy issues. Our work promotes access to justice and contributes to public debate.
This project examines the development, deployment, regulation and impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making (ADM) and algorithms on access to justice, human rights, and due process.
This project is the first legal and policy reform project in Canada to review how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts each stage in a criminal justice matter.
The LCO’s Improving Protection Orders project is examining why protection orders are failing to prevent intimate partner violence and family violence in Ontario.
This project examines how a civil legal framework could address the creation, alteration, and distribution of intimate images without consent.
This project explores the growing use of digital monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace, and their implications for areas which may include privacy and human rights, employment and labour law, platform workers, and AI governance.
Environmental Accountability – Indigenous Engagement
This project began in the fall of 2024. Please check back for more details.
LCO Launches Two New Projects
The LCO is launching two new projects that address emerging and evolving legal issues in Ontario. Intimate Images and Deepfakes This project examines the non-consensual creation, alteration and sharing of intimate images, including deepfakes, and [...]
Law360: Ontario protection order regime in need of urgent reform
LCO Counsel Laura Snowdon discusses the state of Protection Orders in Ontario with Law 360 and shares some of the big questions for the Protection Orders project. Read the article here. [...]
LCO Student Scholar Fellowship Program, Summer 2026
The LCO is pleased to renew the LCO Student Scholar Fellowship Program for 2026. This summer, the LCO will hire up to 11 law students. This program is delivered in collaboration with participating Ontario [...]
