Law Reform in Action
Projects that confront today’s challenges and guide the future of justice
Current Projects
AI in Criminal Justice
Deep dive into the risks and benefits of AI use in the criminal justice system. Read our five-paper series that considers AI use at each stage of a criminal matter.
AI Regulation and Human Rights
Examining how AI can be governed to protect human rights, procedural fairness, and privacy. Check out the Human Rights Impact Assessment.
Intimate Images and Deepfakes
Examining how to protect victims of non-consensual disclosure of intimate images and deepfakes.
Protection Orders
Examining why protections orders are failing to prevent intimate partner and family violence in Ontario.
Workplace Surveillance
A look at the growing use of digital monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace, and their implications for privacy and human rights, employment and labour law, platform workers, and AI governance.
Completed Projects
These projects have released their final reports. The year shown reflects when the report was published. Follow-up activity varies by project; the LCO may offer advice or submissions if provincial work touches on related issues.
- Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace (2024)
- Environmental Accountability (2024)
- Last Stages of Life – Indigenous Engagement (2023)
- Last Stages of Life (2021)
- Defamation Law in the Internet Age (2020)
- Class Actions (2019)
- Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship (2017)
- Small Estates (2015)
- Federal RDSP, Capacity and Legal Representation (2014)
- Family Law Reform (2013)
- Forestry Workers Lien for Wages Act (2013)
- Persons with Disabilities (2012)
- Older Adults (2012)
- Violence against Women Curriculum Modules Initiative (2012)
- Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work (2012)
- Provincial Offences Act (2011)
- Joint & Several Liability (2011)
- Division of Pensions Upon Marriage Breakdown (2008)
- Fees for Cashing Government Cheques (2008)