Simon Wallace

Assistant Professor · Toronto Metropolitan University

Lincoln Alexander School of Law · Toronto, Ontario

Uses computational methods and AI to study large legal datasets; maintains Obiter.ai and BenchBabble.ca and co-directs Access to Algorithmic Justice. Institutional evidence supports inclusion; this entry does not imply that every part of the scholar’s work concerns technology.

Computational legal methods; artificial intelligence; empirical legal research; access to justice

PUBLICATIONS // 3

Introducing the A2AJ's Canadian Legal Data: An open-source alternative to CanLII for the era of computational law · arXiv (2025) · Preprint or working paper
Speaking Like a Judge: Using Artificial Intelligence to Empirically Assess Judicial Speech in Supreme Court of Canada Hearings by Language Spoken and Gender of the Speaker · Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2024) · Journal article
Reading Law’s Great Unread: Qualitative Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence and the New Empirical Legal Research (2024) · Thesis