Dr. Amy Salyzyn

Biography

Amy Salyzyn is an Associate Professor in the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests encompass legal ethics, lawyer regulation, and the application of technology in delivering legal services, particularly to enhance access to justice. She teaches upper-year seminars in Torts and legal ethics, focusing on the integration of artificial intelligence within the legal profession. Professor Salyzyn has been called to the bar in Ontario and currently serves as the Board Chair of the Canadian Association of Legal Ethics. Before joining the University of Ottawa, she was a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and practiced litigation in a boutique firm in Toronto, where her work spanned various areas of civil and commercial litigation including breach of contract, tort, professional negligence, and employment law. She holds a J.S.D. from Yale Law School where her dissertation examined judicial regulation of lawyers in common law jurisdictions, an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School, where she was awarded the Dean's Key at graduation.

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