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BIOGRAPHY
Amy completed her Ph.D. in Law at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral research focused on the discriminatory impact of familial searching of Canada’s National DNA Data Bank, particularly for Indigenous peoples in Canada. She also completed a master's degree focusing on health law & policy and more specifically on provincial substitute decision-making models relating to life-sustaining treatment.
Amy has a broad range of teaching interests, including human rights law and social justice issues that include the criminalization of sex work, reproductive rights, privacy, intimate partner violence, and more. Prior to joining SFU Amy worked in the healthcare sector as a researcher and privacy specialist and has consulted for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on various privacy-related matters.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Social justice; forensic technologies; privacy; scholarship of teaching and learning.
EDUCATION
- BA Psychology (University of Ottawa)
- BA Economics (Dalhousie Uinversity)
- Bachelor of Laws (UK)
- LLM (Western)
- PhD (University of Ottawa)
Note for potential graduate students:
SFU teaching faculty cannot supervise graduate students. Open to being a member of graduate student MA and PhD committees.
Selected Publications
- Teresa Scassa & Amy Conroy, "The Privacy/Transparency Balance in Open Government", Chapter in Government 3.0 - Next Generation Government Technology Infrastructure and Services 2017 (Adegboyega Ojo & Jeremy Millard, eds.).
- Conroy, Amy and Scassa, Teresa, "Balancing Transparency and Accountability with Privacy in Improving the Police Handling of Sexual Assaults" (2016) 28:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
- Teresa Scassa and Amy Conroy, "Strategies for Protecting Privacy in Open Data and Proactive Disclosure" (2016) 14:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.
- Scassa, Teresa and Conroy, Amy, "Promoting Transparency While Protecting Privacy in Open Government in Canada" (2015) 53:1 Alberta Law Review 175.
- Amy Conroy, "Combining Familial Searching and Abandoned DNA: Potential Privacy Outcomes and the Future of Canada's National DNA Data Bank" (2014) 12:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 171.
Professional Development
- Instructional Skills Workshop, Simon Fraser University, 2021
- Rethinking Course Design, Simon Fraser University, 2021
Courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.