Matthew Marinett (JD 2012, LLM 2016, SJD) appointed to faculty at TMU's Ted Rogers School of Management

Doctoral candidate (SJD) Matthew Marinett (JD 2012, LLM 2016) has been appointed an Assistant Professor in the Law and Business Department of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Marinett's doctoral project, (thesis titled "Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Internet Content Governance") examines the manner in which internet corporations create rules and make rights-affecting decisions with worldwide impact and minimal public accountability. Specifically, it explores the applicability of standards of human rights and global administrative law to internet corporations engaged in content governance: a difficult prospect given the numerous forms content governance takes, the extant interaction between states and internet intermediaries, the human rights implications, and the transnational nature of the internet. Nonetheless, the project examines what such an inherently flexible standard might look like. He is affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

Prior to graduate studies, Marinett practiced intellectual property, advertising, and entertainment law at Gowling Lafleur Henderson (now Gowling WLG). He has taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School and U of T Law as an adjunct faculty member.

Read Marinett's TMU profile