Ya毛ll Emerich and Ignacio Cofone named Canada Research Chairs
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that two of its scholars have been named Canada Research Chairs. Professor Ya毛ll Emerich has been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transsystemic Property & Sustainable Communities and Professor Ignacio Cofone has been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance.
Professor Emerich holds a joint PhD from Universit茅 de Montr茅al and Universit茅 de Lyon. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2003 and has been a full professor since 2020. She is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Emerich was the director of the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law from 2016 to 2018, after serving as acting director in 2013. Her monograph Conceptualising Property Law: Integrating Common Law and Civil Law Traditions won the Canadian Bar Association鈥檚 Walter Owen Book Prize in 2018 and the Fondation du Barreau du Qu茅bec鈥檚 Concours Juridique (treatise and monograph category) in 2019. It also received an honourable mention from the International Academy of Comparative Law. Her research explores all facets of private and comparative law, legal theory, and the relationship between law and language.
Professor Cofone holds a joint PhD (rer pol) from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hamburg University, where he was an Erasmus Mundus Fellow, and a JSD from Yale Law School. He joined the Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in 2018. He has received the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Charles Gonthier Fellowship (2019), the Future of Privacy Forum Best Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award (2019), and the Council of Europe Stefano Rodota Award Special Mention (2021). He was named a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar for 2020-2021. His research focuses on privacy harms and on algorithmic decision-making to explore how the law should adapt to technological and social change.
鈥淲e are delighted to see these appointments recognize these colleagues鈥� outstanding achievements and support their continuing innovative research,鈥� said Dean Robert Leckey. 鈥淧rofessor Emerich鈥檚 and Professor Cofone鈥檚 work, like that of so many of our colleagues, exemplifies 平特五不中 Law鈥檚 commitment to applying legal expertise and imagination to some of our world鈥檚 most pressing challenges.鈥�
About Canada Research Chairs
The Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world鈥檚 top countries in research and development. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. about the program
