Ignacio Cofone

Ignacio Cofone is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance at McGill University's Faculty of Law, where he teaches Privacy Law, Artificial Intelligence Regulation, and Advanced Obligations. His research focuses on law reform for privacy and A.I., exploring how the law should adapt to technological and economic change. His current projects examine liability for privacy harm and A.I. discrimination.

While at McGill, professor Cofone was a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar (2020-2021) and received the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Charles Gonthier Fellowship (2019), Future of Privacy Forum Best Privacy Papers for Policymakers award (2019), Council of Europe Stefano Rodota Award Special Mention (2021), Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Honorable Mention (2022), and Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher (2023). He held visiting positions at the Universities of Oxford, St. Gallen, Bar-Ilan, and Di Tella. Previously, he was a research fellow at the NYU Information Law Institute, a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and a legal advisor for the City of Buenos Aires. He obtained a joint Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hamburg University and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School.