Brandon Mattalo is a lawyer and an assistant professor of Strategic Management at Wilfrid Laurier University. Brandon’s legal practice focuses on complex commercial litigation while his research focuses on the intersection of law and technology. He teaches both business law and the law and ethics of data analytics at the undergraduate and master’s levels.

Brandon’s current research focuses on the impact artificial intelligence will have on legal practice and existing legal rules and frameworks. This includes, for example, the impact the technology may have on privacy rights, intellectual property rights as well as the propensity for this technology to create new harms, such as algorithmic-based anti-competitive behaviour. He is also interested in how artificial intelligence can be used to expand empirical legal research methods. His pedagogical research focuses on how artificial intelligence may be used to enhance teaching and learning, while minimizing its harmful effects.

Brandon is also the director of the Lazaridis Intellectual Property Lab, which aims to bring no-cost intellectual property education and resources to startups in the Waterloo, Brantford, and Milton regions. The goal of the Lazaridis Intellectual Property Lab is to assist early entrepreneurs with untangling the complexities of intellectual property law so they can protect their innovations and creations and maintain their competitive advantage in a global market.