Matthew Marinett
Matthew is an Assistant Professor in the Law and Business Department of the Ted Rogers School of Management. His research examines the accountability of businesses in the governance of technology and intellectual property, especially with respect to its impacts upon human rights, privacy, user rights in IP, and the democratic process. His work also engages with social media content moderation, artificial intelligence and automated decision-making, Canadian IP and internet policy, and business contracts. His writing has appeared in the UBC Law Review, the Alberta Law Review, the Internet Policy Review, and the Intellectual Property Journal.
Prior to pursuing an academic path, Matthew practiced intellectual property, advertising, and entertainment law at Gowling Lafleur Henderson (now Gowling WLG). He previously taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law as an Adjunct faculty member.
Intellectual property, law & technology, internet law, artificial intelligence, contracts, administrative law, corporate social responsibility, privacy, law & economics
- Publications
- Marinett, M. (2025).
Law behind a paywall: Copyright as a barrier to the rule of law in incorporation by reference. Intellectual Property Journal, 37(3), 137. - Marinett, M. (2021). The new frontier of platform policy (external link) . Internet Policy Review, 10(3).
- Marinett, M. (2020). The race to the bottom: Comity and cooperation in global internet takedown orders (external link) . UBC Law Review, 53(2), 464.
- Marinett, M. (2018). Protecting individual self-interest in aggregate as the basis of fairness in contract (external link) . Alberta Law Review, 55(3), 703.
- Marinett, M. (2017). The alienation of economic rights and the case for stickier copyright (external link) . Intellectual Property Journal, 30(1), 125.
| Honour/Award |
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| Schwartz Reisman Graduate Fellowship (2020–2021) |
| Joseph-Armand Bombardier (SSHRC) CGS Doctoral Scholarship (2018–2021) |
| CIGI International Law Research Program SJD Scholarship (2018–2020) |
| University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship (Doctoral) in Innovation Law and Policy (2016–2018) |