Canadian Lawyer released its 2026 list of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada yesterday and I am grateful to be included. This is the fourth time I have appeared on the list, but the first since 2013, when the issues of the day were copyright reform and usage-based billing rather than artificial intelligence and online harms. It is a particular pleasure to be joined by my colleague Amy Salyzyn, named for her leadership on legal ethics and AI, giving the University of Ottawa two of the 25.

The nomination cited not only my digital policy work but also my work over the past two years on antisemitism, which I appreciated. Thank you to the person who nominated me, to the many people who voted during the public phase in the spring, and to the Faculty of Law for promoting the nomination. Whatever influence the work has comes from the readers of this site, the listeners of the Law Bytes podcast, and the students and colleagues at the University of Ottawa who make it possible. The full list is available here.