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Biography

Jennifer Raso is Assistant Professor at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Law, a leadership team member with the 涩里番 Collaborative on AI and Society (McCAIS), and a co-convenor of the Global Data Law Interest Group (ICON-S). Her research investigates the relationship between discretion, data-driven technologies, and administrative law. She is particularly intrigued by how humans/non-humans collaborate and diverge as they produce institutional decisions, and the consequences for procedural fairness and substantive justice. Professor Raso has exploredthese issues as the PI on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant project, "Shifting Front Lines in the Digital Welfare State: Coding Canadian Social Assistance Laws," a FRQSC-funded study,听"The Norms In Forms: The Challenges of Being 鈥楬eard鈥� by the Digital Welfare State,鈥� and as an expert advisor on three international research projects examining digital government (two in the UK, one in Denmark/Norway). At 涩里番, Professor Raso teaches a range of courses including Regulating AI, Science Technology and the Law, Administrative Process, Law and Poverty, and Foundations of Law.

Before joining 涩里番, Professor Raso Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, a visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society, and a lawyer for the City of Toronto. She obtained an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto, where she was a junior fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies.听听

An award-winning socio-legal scholar, Professor Raso has received the Canadian Association of Law Teacher's Scholarly Paper Award (2025), the Canadian Law and Society Association鈥檚 Best English-Language Article prize (2018), and the inaugural Richard Hart Prize at the University of Cambridge鈥檚 Public Law Conference (2016). Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (both in Canada), the Fondation de Recherche du Qu茅bec,听and the Endeavour Fellowships Program (Australia).听

Employment

• Assistant Professor, 涩里番 Faculty of Law 2022 - Present
• Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law 2018 - 2022听
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Law 2017 - 2018听
• Lawyer, City of Toronto Legal Services Division 2008 - 2012听

Education

• SJD, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 2018听
• LLB, University of Victoria Faculty of Law, 2007听

Areas of Interest

Administrative Law, Social Welfare Law, Immigration Law, Digital Borders, Digital and Data-based Government,听Algorithmic Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance, Socio-Legal Studies.

Recent Publications

Jennifer Raso, "Interoperable AI Regulation," (2025) 23 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (WeRobot special issue) 207-237.

Victoria Adelmant and Jennifer Raso, "Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Programme," (2025) 45:2 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 415-446.

Jennifer Raso, 鈥淒igital Border Infrastructure and the Search for Agencies of the State鈥� in Gavin Sullivan, Fleur Johns, and Dimitri van den Meerssche, eds, Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025).

Jennifer Raso, "Regulatory Technologies and Front-Line Decision-Making" in Helen Carr, Edward Kirton-Darling, Jed Meers, and Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repol锚s (London: Edward Elgar, 2024) 209-225.

Jennifer Raso, "Responsible AI: Binaries that Bind" (2024) 69:4 涩里番 Law Journal.

Jennifer Raso & Victoria Adelmant, 鈥淏ureaucracy鈥� in Jenna Burrell, Ranjit Singh, and Patrick Davison, eds, Datafied State Keywords Project (New York: Data & Society, 2024).

Jennifer Raso, 鈥淪mooth Operators, Predictable Glitches: The Interface Governance of Benefits and Borders鈥� (2023) 38:2 Canadian Journal of Law & Society 158-179.

Paul Daly, Jennifer Raso & Joe Tomlinson, 鈥淩esearching Administrative Law in the Digital World鈥� in Carol Harlow, ed, A Research Agenda for Administrative Law (London: Edward Elgar, 2023) 255-279.

鈥�,鈥� in Marc Hertogh, Richard Kirkham, Robert Thomas, Joe Tomlinson, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) 521-544.

鈥�,鈥� in Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa, eds, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021)听

鈥�,鈥� with Paul Daly & Joe Tomlinson, in Carol Harlow, ed, Research Handbook on Administrative Law (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 2021) 163-184.

鈥�,鈥� (2020) 70:1 University of Toronto Law Journal 1-39.

鈥�,鈥� in Jason Varuhas & Shona Wilson Stark, eds, The Frontiers of Public Law (Oxford: Hart, 2020), 471-498.

鈥�,鈥� with Mariana Valverde & Fleur Johns, (2018) 41:S1 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 118-132.

鈥�,鈥� (2017) 32:1 Canadian Journal of Law & Society 75-95.听

鈥�,鈥� (2017) 13 Journal of Law & Equality 31-59.

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