He/Him
Email:
avner.levin@ryerson.ca
Avner Levin is a professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and one of the law school’s originating committee members. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Law & Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management for research collaboration and graduate supervision.
Professor Levin is the founding director of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Law Research Centre and the founding director of the Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute. He served as interim dean of the Ted Rogers School of Management during the first six months of 2018, and as Toronto Metropolitan University’s interim vice-provost of faculty affairs and as interim assistant vice-president of Human Resources during the 2012 to 2013 academic year.
Levin’s research interests include the legal profession, law and technology, privacy and cybercrime, and tort law. He has been a recipient of funding from bodies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Public Safety Canada, Industry Canada, and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel-Aviv University.
Levin has published his work in journals such as the International Journal of the Legal Profession, the American Business Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, the International Journal of Information Security and the Advocates Quarterly. He is the co-author, with Mr. Howard Simkevitz of The Law of Employee Use of Technology.
Professor Levin holds an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. and an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University.
