Matthew Dylag
Assistant Professor of Law
Connect with me
Email: matthew.dylag@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Access to Justice
- Legal Needs
- Law and Technology
- Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
- Justice and the Rule of Law
- Civil Procedure
- Legal Ethics
Education
- PhD (Osgoode Hall Law School of York University)
- LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School of York University)
- LLB (Queen鈥檚 University)
- BA (Hons.) (University of Toronto)
Bar admission
- Member of the Law Society of Ontario
Bio
Dr. Matthew Dylag is an access to justice scholar with a particular interest in how emerging technologies are being integrated into the justice sector. His research has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals, and he has presented extensively at both national and international conferences. Since 2022 he has been an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Law at 麻豆社 where he has enjoyed teaching Civil Procedure, Torts, and Legal Ethics. In 2025 he was awarded the DLAA & LSS Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Before joining 麻豆社, Dr. Dylag was a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he was researching the growing use of artificial intelligence within the legal services market and the effect of this phenomena on equality and fairness.
Dr. Dylag obtained his PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada. His dissertation, entitled 鈥淢easuring Access to Civil Justice: An Empirical Study of Ontario鈥檚 Reform Initiatives,鈥� examined social media conversations about legal problems to assess whether crowd-sourced legal advice was a viable access to justice solution for Canadians. This research was awarded several scholarships, including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS research grant.
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Dylag practiced in Ontario as a civil litigator representing clients in all manners of commercial and consumer disputes. He has appeared before the Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, and the Ontario Court of Appeal.
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- LAWS 1016/1026 鈥� Tort Law and Damage Compensation
- LAWS 2099 鈥� Legal Profession
- LAWS 2361/2362 鈥� Civil Procedure
Research interests
Dr. Dylag鈥檚 primary research focus is on access to justice and legal needs. He is interested in both theoretical and empirical work that explores how justiciable issues can be resolved more fairly and efficiently. Within the realms of law and technology, Dr. Dylag is also interested in issues surrounding ethics, the rule of law, equality and human rights, and research methodologies.