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Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

@effodu

Asst. Professor, Lincoln Law at TMU | Ph.D. candidate @OsgoodeNews, researching the impacts of AI on human rights praxis in Africa. @UniOfOxford Alum.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Katılım Ocak 2011
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In my Tech Law class, students are not just learning how to practice in digital courts; they are among the first generation of Canadian lawyers being trained to critically interrogate, redesign, and improve them. The future of courts is online. The future of lawyers must be too.
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Call for Papers: I am co-editing a special issue of the Latin American Law Review on "The Future of the Legal Profession in the Digital Age: Perspectives from the Global South." Manuscripts due 30 June 2026. Submit in English or Spanish revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/lar/…
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My oped on @IPOsgoode: Why AI Red Teams Need More Lawyers After participating in red teams, it became clear to me that safety testing of AI systems CANNOT remain the domain of engineers. Here are 5 things lawyers bring to the "AI breaking" table  yorku.ca/osgoode/iposgo…
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I was very proud to receive the @YorkUniversity President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award this year. I have been supported and inspired by so many excellent others - students, colleagues, mentors, family, and friends. I thank them. @OsgoodeNews
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Data isn’t just tracking what you buy, it could decide what you pay. My latest op-ed explores how surveillance pricing could reshape grocery bills and deepen inequality, and how Canadian laws need to change before personalized pricing becomes normalized. theconversation.com/your-browsing-…
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Honoured to receive the Dean’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching (Faculty of Law) at the 2026 Toronto Metropolitan University Awards. I am profoundly thankful to my students, colleagues, and community, whose trust, brilliance, and engagement continue to inspire me daily.
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@effodu Congratulations Jake🎉
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Now a CIGI Senior Fellow. I look forward to contributing to timely work at the intersection of AI, human rights, and international law, and to engaging with a global community advancing more just and accountable AI governance. cigionline.org/people/jake-ok…
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I am happy to have contributed to this groundbreaking report by the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Law enforcement institutions in every country should get this! Link: unicri.org/Publication-De…
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This week, Toronto police linked incidents of coordinated groups leveraging the use of smart AI glasses to commit crimes. I spoke to the CBC yesterday, explaining that this is not just about theft but the normalization of ambient surveillance [In French]: ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/22472…
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For their final exam, my Tech Law students pitched 22 transformative Tools, Rules, & Spaces to reimagine online courts in Canada, each before 20 judges/experts. In this era, mastery of law also requires tech research, product testing, design refinement, and narrative precision.
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