Dr. Jennifer Raso

​I'm an Assistant Professor at McGill University's Faculty of Law. I study how algorithmically-driven technologies are transforming front-line administrative decisions.

I am particularly interested in how humans, technologies, and institutions together produce decisions, and the consequences of this arrangement for procedural fairness and substantive justice. To this end, I use qualitative research methods to better understand these phenomena.

I regularly share insights with academics, professionals, and the wider public. I am an advisory board member on the Law Commission of Ontario's AI and Automated Decision-Making project, and an advisor on three international research projects (The Future of Good Decisions Project, led by Connal Parsley; Administrative Fairness in the Digital Welfare State, led by Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, and Simon Halliday; and Explainable Legal AI, led by Henrik Palmer Olsen, Ragna Aarli, and Synne Saether Maehle).

An award-winning socio-legal scholar, my research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), the Fonds de Récherche du Québec, and the Endeavour Fellowships Program (Australia), cited by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and recognized by the Canadian Law and Society Association (Best Article Prize, 2018) and the University of Cambridge (Richard Hart Prize, 2016).

Before pursuing graduate studies, I litigated social welfare, administrative, and human rights matters with the City of Toronto's Legal Services Division.

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