Kristen Thomasen

Associate Professor; Senior Chair in Law, Robotics & Society · University of Windsor

Faculty of Law · Windsor, Ontario

Thomasen studies legal and social consequences of robotic and automated technologies. Her research examines privacy harms and the regulation of public spaces shaped by automation.

Robots, automation, surveillance, privacy, tort law and space technology law.

PUBLICATIONS // 12

We Robot 2025: Connecting Global Robotics and AI Governance Experts in Canada · Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (2026) · Journal article
R-AI-sing Questions: Exploring the Ethical and Legal Landscape of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Media of Medicalized Children · Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (2026) · Journal article
Beyond airspace safety: a feminist perspective on drone privacy regulation · Robot Law: Volume II (2025) · Book chapter
CHAPTER 1 Whose Security Are We Talking About Anyway? The Case of Amazon Ring · The Security of Self (2025) · Book chapter
Whose Security Are We Talking About Anyway?: The Case of Amazon Ring · The Security of Self: A Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity (2025) · Book chapter
Robots, Regulation, and the Changing Nature of Public Space · The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction (2024) · Book chapter
Submission to The Standing Committee on Industry and Technology on Bill C-27, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts · SSRN Electronic Journal (2023) · Preprint or working paper
Safety in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Governance in Canada · SSRN Electronic Journal (2023) · Preprint or working paper
AI and Tort Law · Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (2021) · Book chapter
Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in an Era of Drones and Deepfakes: Expanding the Supreme Court of Canada's Decision in R v Jarvis · The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse (2021) · Book chapter
Submission to the Toronto Police Services Board’s Use of New Artificial Intelligence Technologies Policy - LEAF and The Citizen Lab · LEAF and The Citizen Lab joint submission to Toronto Police Services Board (2021) · Report
Robots, Regulation, and the Changing Nature of Public Spaces · SSRN Electronic Journal (2020) · Preprint or working paper