Matthew is an Assistant Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management (Law & Business) at Toronto Metropolitan University. He recently defended his SJD dissertation at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. During his doctoral studies, Matthew was a Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholar and a Graduate Fellow of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. His broader research examines the rule of law implications of the corporate control and governance of technology, especially with respect to copyright, privacy, and freedom of expression. His work has appeared in the UBC Law Review, the Alberta Law Review, the Internet Policy Review, and the Intellectual Property Journal.
Matthew's doctoral project examined the manner in which internet corporations create rules and make rights-affecting decisions with worldwide impact and minimal public accountability. Specifically, it explored the applicability of standards of human rights and global administrative law to internet corporations engaged in content governance: a difficult prospect given the numerous forms content governance takes, the extant interaction between states and internet intermediaries, the human rights implications, and the transnational nature of the internet. Nonetheless, the project examined what such an inherently flexible standard might look like.
Prior to pursuing an academic path, Matthew was an associate at Gowling Lafleur Henderson (now Gowling WLG) in the Intellectual Property department. He worked primarily within the Entertainment Law Group and the Advertising, Marketing and Regulatory Affairs Group. Prior to joining Gowlings, he volunteered his time at Advocates for Injured Workers, a legal clinic that assisted low-income clients who had been injured in the course of their employment to obtain workers' compensation benefits.
Matthew has previously served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School and at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Individual lives are increasingly “datafied” and this information is collected, warehoused, analyzed and distributed across the globe on a massive scale. As individuals become more and more “transparent,” the technology that is driving this massive transformation becomes more and more opaque. This “transparency gap” is a problem for all stakeholders in the information age.