WHO WE ARE
The Law Commission of Ontario is Ontario’s leading law reform agency. The LCO provides independent, balanced and authoritative advice on complex legal policy issues. Our work promotes access to justice and contributes to public debate.
This project examines 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.
This project is the first legal and policy reform project in Canada to review how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts each stage in a criminal justice matter.
The LCO’s Improving Protection Orders project is examining why protection orders are failing to prevent intimate partner violence and family violence in Ontario.
This project examines how a civil legal framework could address the creation, alteration, and distribution of intimate images without consent.
This project explores the growing use of digital monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace, and their implications for areas which may include privacy and human rights, employment and labour law, platform workers, and AI governance.
Environmental Accountability – Indigenous Engagement
This project began in the fall of 2024. Please check back for more details.
LCO Releases “Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace” Consultation Paper
On Thursday June 22, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) released its Consultation Paper on Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace. A copy of the paper is available here. This project considers how to improve [...]
LCO welcomes ten student fellows to its 2023 summer roster
The LCO is pleased to announce its incoming cohort of Student Scholar Fellows for Summer 2023, beginning on May 15. Now in its fourth year of operation, the LCO Student Scholar Fellowship program [...]
LCO releases ‘The Last Stages of Life for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples’ Final Report
On Tuesday, May 9th, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) released a major new report on Indigenous health law: The Last Stages of Life for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples: Preliminary Recommendations for [...]
