Dr. Emily Laidlaw is the Rovinescu Visiting Scholar on Anti-Hate Speech and an Associate member of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Emily Laidlaw is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and, in addition to her academic work, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Consortium.
Dr. Laidlaw researches and advises at the intersection of technology regulation, human rights and corporate governance, with a special focus on platform regulation and cybersecurity. She actively contributes to law reform and other advisory work, with recent projects on online harms, mis- and disinformation, defamation law, and intimate image abuse. Dr. Laidlaw is the author of Regulating Speech in Cyberspace: Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-editor with Florian Martin-Bariteau of Security of Self: A Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity (Ottawa University Press, 2025).
Prior to joining the University of Calgary in 2014, Dr. Laidlaw spent nearly a decade in the United Kingdom, completing her LLM and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and working as an assistant professor at the University of East Anglia Law School.