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AI, ADM and the Justice System
The LCO’s multiyear AI, ADM and the Justice System project brings together policymakers, legal professionals, technologists, NGOs and community members to discuss the development, deployment, regulation and impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making (ADM) and algorithms on access to justice, human rights, and due process.

Environmental Accountability: Rights, Responsibilities and Access to Justice
The LCO is considering possible reforms to Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights and other contemporary approaches to strengthening environmental accountability in Ontario. Issues include the desirability, feasibility and enforceability of legislating a substantive right to a healthy environment, the responsibilities corresponding to such a right, and proposals for enhancing environmental access to justice.

Last Stages of Life
The LCO’s Last Stages of Life project considers how the law shapes the rights, choices, and quality of life for persons who are dying and those who support them.

Indigenous Engagement – Last Stages of Life
The LCO established a distinct engagement process to identify and hear about Indigenous laws and experiences in the last stages of life.

Improving Protection Orders
The LCO’s Improving Protection Orders project is examining why protection orders are not working effectively to prevent femicide and intimate partner violence in Ontario.

Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace
The LCO’s Digital Marketplace Initiative is collaborating with leading academics in Canada in an innovative, data-driven project to identify law reform options related to so-called “click to consent” or “terms of service” (ToS) contracts.
Past Projects
- Division of Pensions Upon Marriage Breakdown
- Family Law Reform
- Federal RDSP, Capacity and Legal Representation
- Fees for Cashing Government Cheques
- Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship
- Class Actions: Objectives, Experiences and Reforms
- Forestry Workers Lien for Wages Act
- Defamation Law in the Internet Age
- Joint & Several Liability
- Older Adults
- Persons with Disabilities
- Provincial Offences Act
- Small Estates
- Violence against Women Curriculum Modules Initiative
- Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work