Biography

Michael’s research interests revolve around the governance of technologies, privacy, and young people. Interdisciplinary approaches to law interest him most. Childhood studies, media studies, bioethics, and relational feminism have been central to his recent work.
He recently finished his doctoral work at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law where he examined the informational privacy of adolescents from their parents in the digital environment. He’s previously been a student of law and of urban planning at McGill University, Oxford University, and University College London.
He’s also been affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (Toronto), the Information Law Institute (NYU), and the Centre of Genomics and Policy (McGill).
At the EUI, Michael will research the governance of infrastructure that underlies youth online safety law and policy. (Think age verification, parental controls, encryption, and so on.) His research is also supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Mentor

• Thomas, Streinz