Benjamin Alarie

Benjamin is a law professor, author and entrepreneur. Prior to becoming a law professor, he completed graduate work in law and Yale Law School and a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada. As a full-time academic he holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. As an entrepreneur, he is founder and CEO of Blue J, a legal technology company that is committed to leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring clarity to the law. As an academic researcher, he has published dozens of academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several books. Since 2021, Alarie has had a regular column in Tax Notes in which he uses machine-learning to analyze and make predictions relating to pending and recently decided American tax cases. His most recent book is, The Legal Singularity: How AI Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023).