Benjamin Alarie

Benjamin Alarie holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and maintains key affiliations as an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and founder/CEO of Blue J Legal.

• Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto
• Affiliated Faculty, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Founder & CEO, Blue J Legal

His research pioneers artificial intelligence applications in legal domains, with concentrated expertise in tax law, business law, and judicial decision-making systems. Alarie has co-authored seminal works including a leading tax law text (LexisNexis), Computational Constraints on Supreme Court Decision-Making (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Legal Singularity (University of Toronto Press, 2023), while regularly applying machine learning to analyze U.S. tax cases in his Tax Notes column since 2021.

Through Blue J Legal, Alarie operationalizes his academic research into practical AI-driven legal technology solutions, creating a direct pipeline between scholarly innovation and real-world legal clarity. His work uniquely bridges theoretical legal scholarship with entrepreneurial implementation in the legal tech space.