Director
Biography
Dr. Emily Laidlaw is a Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and an Associate Member of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Dr. Laidlaw is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Consortium.
Dr. Laidlaw researches and advises at the intersection of technology regulation, human rights and corporate governance, with a special focus on platform regulation. She actively contributes to law reform and other advisory work, with recent projects on online harms, mis- and disinformation, defamation law, and intimate image abuse. She is the author of two books: Regulating Speech in Cyberspace: Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-editor with Florian Martin-Bariteau of the forthcoming book Security of Self: A Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity (Ottawa University Press, 2025).
Prior to joining the University of Calgary in 2014, Dr. Laidlaw spent nearly a decade in the United Kingdom, completing her LLM and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and held a lectureship at the University of East Anglia Law School.
