Dr. Jennifer Raso (SJD University of Toronto; LLB University of Victoria) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law, where she studies the relationship between discretion, data-driven technologies, and administrative law. She is particularly interested in how humans/non-humans collaborate and diverge as they produce institutional decisions, and the consequences of this arrangement for procedural fairness and substantive justice. An award-winning socio-legal scholar, her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the Endeavour Fellowships Program (Australia), cited by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and recognized by the Canadian Law and Society Association (best article prize, 2018) and the University of Cambridge (Richard Hart Prize, 2016).
Before pursuing graduate studies, Dr. Raso litigated social welfare, administrative, and human rights matters with the City of Toronto's Legal Services Division. Her scholarship appears in the University of Toronto Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law & Society, the Journal of Law & Equality, and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
