Simon Wallace

Simon Wallace is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, specializing in computational legal research, AI, immigration law, and legal history.

Education:

• PhD, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

His research addresses the "great unread" of legal texts through computational analysis, examining patterns in law via empirical studies of deportation history, border enforcement technology, and criminal law. Prior to academia, he litigated immigration detention cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, focusing on solitary confinement detainees. He develops Obiter.ai (an open-source legal research Python library) and BenchBabble.ca (tracking Supreme Court of Canada decision patterns).

No information available on current advising relationships or research grants.

He leads the Obiter.ai and BenchBabble.ca projects, applying digital humanities approaches to legal scholarship.