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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.
The LCO’s multiyear AI in the Civil/Administrative 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.
The LCO’s Criminal AI Lifecycle 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. Our goal is to help government and different criminal justice sector institutions anticipate the risks and benefits of AI on access to justice, due process, human rights, and civil liberties; and to help these institutions identify and adopt concrete, practical and complimentary legal and policy reform responses to the shared challenges of AI.
The LCO’s Digital Marketplace Initiative collaborated 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.
The LCO considered possible reforms to Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights and other contemporary approaches to strengthening environmental accountability in Ontario. Issues included 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.
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.
LCO welcomes nine student fellows to its 2024 summer roster
The LCO is pleased to announce its incoming cohort of Student Scholar Fellows for Summer 2024, beginning on May 21. Now in its fifth year of operation, the LCO Student Scholar Fellowship program [...]
LCO Releases “Improving Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace” Final Report
On Monday, May 13th, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) released Improving Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace: Final Report, a comprehensive and independent review of Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, 2023 (CPA). The LCO [...]
LCO announces the appointments of four new Board of Governors members
This post is also available in: français (French) The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) is pleased to announce the appointments of four new members: Trevor C.W. Farrow (representative for Osgoode Hall Law School), term [...]
