Jonathon Penney

Position

Internet NZ Senior Research Fellow in CyberLaw (2009), Lecturer

Qualifications

BA, LLB Dalhousie, MSt Oxford, LLM Columbia

Profile

Before coming to Victoria, Jonathon spent time studying and researching at Columbia Law School, where he was a Fulbright scholar, and Oxford University, where he was a Mackenzie King Travelling Scholar and Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.  He has previously worked as a lawyer with the Justice Department and as a policy advisor at the federal level in Canada.

Jonathon’s research focuses on constitutional law and history, technology law and intellectual property, both separately and where these areas intersect. Outside academic research, he writes legal, political and public policy commentary for the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Recent Publications

"Understanding the New Virtualist Paradigm" (2009) 12 Journal of Internet Law (forthcoming).

"Ivan Rand's Ancient Constitutionalism" in DeLloyd Guth & John McEvoy (eds) Ivan C Rand at the Supreme Court of Canada 1943-1959) (Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society, forthcoming, 2009).

"Privacy and the New Virtualism" (2008) 10 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 194.

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Teaching 2010

LAWS 531/431 The Law and Regulation of Cyberspace