Ignacio Cofone

McGill University Faculty of Law

Canada Research Chair in AI Law & Data Governance

3644 Peel Street

Montreal H3A 1W9, Quebec

Canada

http://www.ignaciocofone.com

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1.

Beyond Data Ownership

43 Cardozo Law Review 501 (2021)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2022
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Data ownership, privacy law, purpose limitation, purpose specification, privacy enforcement, property rules, liability rules

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Algorithmic Discrimination Is an Information Problem

70 Hastings Law Journal 1389 (2019)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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algorithmic discrimination, algorithmic decision-making, discrimination, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI, COMPAS, criminal procedure, employment discrimination, privacy, data protection

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Nothing to Hide, but Something to Lose

70 University of Toronto Law Journal (2020)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Privacy, Employment Law, Surveillance, Genetic Nondiscrimination, Tax Privacy, Law & Economics, Information Privacy

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AI and Judicial Decision-Making

in Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa, eds., Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2022
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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AI; judicial decision-making; Canada; judges

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Privacy Standing

2022 University of Illinois Law Review 1367, McGill SGI Research Papers in Business, Finance, Law and Society Research Paper No. 2023-03
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2023
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Privacy law, privacy harm, class actions, privacy class actions

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Google v. Spain: A Right to Be Forgotten?

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2017
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Right to be forgotten, online privacy, data protection, search engine liability

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Antidiscriminatory Privacy

72 SMU L. Rev. 139 (2019)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Privacy, discrimination, algorithmic decisionmaking, algorithmic discrimination, disparate treatment, disparate impact

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Immunity Passports and Contact Tracing Surveillance

24 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 176 (2021)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 19 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2021
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Immunity passports, contact tracing, privacy, data protection, pandemic, COVID-19

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Privacy Harms

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 69, 2018
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Ignacio Cofone and Adriana Robertson
McGill University Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School
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Information privacy, Law & Economics, Tort Law, Fourth Amendment Law, Bayesian updating

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Strategic Games and Algorithmic Secrecy

64.4 McGill Law Journal 623 (2019), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-08
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2020
Ignacio Cofone and Katherine J. Strandburg
McGill University Faculty of Law and New York University School of Law
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algorithmic decision-making, gaming, algorithmic transparency, algorithmic secrecy, algorithmic opacity, algorithmic accountability, automated decision-making, credit scoring, criminal investigation, criminal procedure, employment law game theory & the law

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The Way the Cookie Crumbles: Online Tracking Meets Behavioral Economics

International Journal of Law & Information Technology 25(1): 38, 2016, DOI: 10.1093/ijlit/eaw013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2017
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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online tracking, online privacy, cookie law, data protection, default rules, consumer choice

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Servers and Waiters: What Matters in the Law of A.I.

Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 21, 2018
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2018
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Artificial Intelligence Law, Law of Robotics, Algorithmic decision-making, Algorithms, Tort Law, Legal Analogies

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Policy Proposals for PIPEDA Reform to Address Artificial Intelligence

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Report (12 November 2020). Available at: priv.gc.ca/en/about-the-opc/what-we-do/consultations/completed-consultations/consultation-ai/pol-ai_202011/
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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PIPEDA, Bill C-11, Consumer Privacy Protection Act, Privacy Law, Information Privacy Law, Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Artificial Intelligence Policy

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Consumer Privacy in a Behavioral World

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 69, 2018
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2018
Ignacio Cofone and Adriana Robertson
McGill University Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School
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Consumer Privacy, Behavioral Law & Economics, ISP, Consumer Law, Biases, Information Privacy

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A Healthy Amount of Privacy: Quantifying Privacy Concerns in Medicine

Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Patient Privacy, Privacy Loss, Information Privacy, Data Protection, E-Health, QALY, ICER

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How to Choose a Law Review: An Empirical Study

71.2 Journal of Legal Education 311 (2023), McGill SGI Research Papers in Business, Finance, Law and Society Research Paper No. 2023-02
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2023
Ignacio Cofone and Pierre-Jean G. Malé
McGill University Faculty of Law and Harvard University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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legal journals, law reviews, publishing, legal academia, impact factor, academic tenure, law professors, legal profession

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Privacy

A. Marciano, G. B. Ramello (eds.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2018)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Information privacy, Law & Economics, Data Privacy, Data Protection

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Majority Rules in Constitutional Referendums

70.3 Kyklos 402
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2018
Ignacio Cofone and Stephan Michel
McGill University Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Constitution-making, Referendum, Popular Participation, Unanimity, Majority Rules, Qualified Majority

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The Dynamic Effect of Information Privacy Law

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2017
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 22 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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Cy Près Settlements in Privacy Class Actions

Ignacio N. Cofone (ed.), Class Actions in Privacy Law, Routledge, 2020
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Jun 2020
Thomas Kadri and Ignacio Cofone
University of Georgia School of Law and McGill University Faculty of Law
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Privacy Law, Class Actions, Privacy Class Actions, Cy Pres Settlements, Frank v Gaos

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The Right to be Forgotten in Peace Processes

Ignacio N. Cofone (ed.), The Right to be Forgotten: A Canadian and Comparative Perspective (Routledge: London, 2020) 76-102.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Sep 2020
Ignacio Cofone and Catalina Turriago Betancourt
McGill University Faculty of Law and McGill University
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Right to be forgotten, peace processes, transitional justice, privacy, information privacy, reputation, credible commitment

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Ethical Surveillance in Vaccine Passports

Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 45, 2022
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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vaccine passports, immunity passports, COVID-19, AI ethics, surveillance, inequality, human rights

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The Limits of Probabilistic Causality in Law

Global Jurist 15(1). DOI: 10.1515/gj-2014-0012.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Ignacio Cofone
McGill University Faculty of Law
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causation, responsibility, probabilistic causality, tort law

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Credible Commitment or Paternalism? The Case of Unamendability

An Unamendable Constitution? (Albert & Oder eds, 2018)
Posted: 03 Apr 2022
Stephan Michel and Ignacio Cofone
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and McGill University Faculty of Law

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unamendability, pre-commitment, paternalism, unamendable provisions, constitutional theory