Ryan is in his second year of the English Common Law JD program. In his first year he focused his studies on tech issues relating to access to justice, social justice, and privacy law. He volunteered on projects with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (via Pro Bono Students Canada) relating to machine readable standard form contracts. In addition, through the 1L Technoship program he researched the practice of data scraping for facial recognition technology used by police investigations. He is most interested in exploring the ethical, social, cultural, and legal dimensions of innovation in technology.

Before he started his JD, Ryan completed a Master’s degree in Philosophy, where he focused his research on legal philosophy and applied bioethics. After finishing his MA, Ryan worked as a Research Officer at the Institute on Ethics and Policy for Innovation. There, he examined the ethics of clinical trial data governance for Global Health.

Ryan currently works on the COVID-19 contact tracing data visualization project.