Elizabeth Judge

Dr. Elizabeth Judge is a Full Professor in the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. She coordinates the Graduate Studies in Law and Technology (English track) and holds a cross-appointment with the Department of English. She is also an affiliate member of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy and serves on the Graduate Programs Evaluation Committee.

Education: BA (Honours) in English and American Literature/Political Science (Brown University); JD (Harvard Law School); MA in English (University of Toronto); LL.M. and PhD in English Literature (Dalhousie University).

Her research focuses on intellectual property rights, interdisciplinary law and literature scholarship (especially originality/authorship in historical contexts), privacy law, and the long eighteenth-century English literary tradition. She has authored/co-authored major works like Intellectual Property: The Law in Canada (Carswell) and published extensively in related fields.

Professional experience includes legal practice in Washington, D.C., judicial clerkship at Canada’s Supreme Court (Justice Ian Binnie), and teaching in both law and literature. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and admitted to bars in California, D.C., and the U.S. Tax Court.

Supervises graduate students and actively engages in interdisciplinary initiatives bridging law, technology, and humanities.