Benjamin Alarie
Benjamin Alarie (born 1977) is a Canadian jurist, law professor, and entrepreneur. He holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and is CEO of Blue J Legal.[1][2][3] He holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Toronto, and Yale University.[4][5] He is perhaps most well known for pioneering the idea of the "legal singularity" in 2016 in an article in the University of Toronto Law Journal [6] and in subsequent popular [7] and scholarly work.[8]
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Born | 1977 (age 43–44) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Professor Alarie researches and teaches in taxation law and judicial decision-making, and was awarded the Alan Mewett QC Prize[9] for excellence in teaching by the law school's graduating class of 2009. Before joining the Faculty of Law as a full-time professor in 2004, Professor Alarie completed graduate work in law at the Yale Law School and was a law clerk for Madam Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has dozens of academic publications, and his research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is a coauthor of several editions of a leading legal text on tax law, Canadian Income Tax Law, including the most recent 6th Edition (LexisNexis, 2018).[10]
Publications
- Duff, David; Alarie, Benjamin (2006). Canadian Income Tax Law (2nd ed.). LexisNexis. ISBN 978-0-433-45416-8.
- Alarie, Benjamin; Green, Andrew J. (2017). Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-939759-4.
- Benjamin Alarie, "Turning Standards into Rules Part 1: Using Machine Learning to Predict Tax Outcomes" [11]
- Benjamin Alarie, "Turning Standards into Rules Part 2: How Do Financial Risk Factors Affect Debt vs. Equity Determinations?" [12]
- Benjamin Alarie, "Turning Standards into Rules—Part 3: Behavioral Control Factors in Employee vs. Independent Contractor Decisions" [13]
- Benjamin Alarie, "Turning Standards into Rules Part 4: Machine Learning and Economic Substance" [14]
- Benjamin Alarie, "Turning Standards into Rules—Part 5: Weighing the Factors in Capital Gains vs. Ordinary Income Decisions" [15]
- Benjamin Alarie, "The Path of the Law: Toward Legal Singularity" [16]
- Benjamin Alarie and David Duff, "The Legacy of UK Tax Concepts in Canadian Income Tax Law" [2008] British Tax Review 228.[17]
- Benjamin Alarie, "Mutual Misunderstanding in Contract" (2009) 46(4) American Business Law Journal 531. [18]
- Benjamin Alarie and Andrew James Green, "The Reasonable Justice: An Empirical Analysis of Justice Frank Iacobucci's Career on the Supreme Court of Canada" (2007) 57 University of Toronto Law Journal 195. [19]
- Benjamin Alarie and Andrew James Green, "Policy Preference Change and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada" (2009) 47(1) Osgoode Hall Law Journal [20]
References
- Legal, Blue J. "Blue J Legal | Predictive Tax Law Software". www.bluejlegal.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- "This Toronto startup uses A.I. to help lawyers predict trial outcomes". www.canadianbusiness.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- "AI technology can enhance a practice | Law Times". www.lawtimesnews.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- "The Promise of AI for Positive Comparative Law". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- "Laurier explores the impact of computational and design thinking at its first annual Ignite Your Teaching event | Wilfrid Laurier University". www.wlu.ca. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/UTLJ.4008?journalCode=utlj. Missing or empty
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(help) - "Transcending Books: What's Next For Law and Society? TEDxBeaconStreetSalon".
- "Ahead by a Century: Tim Edgar, Machine-Learning, and the Future of Anti-Avoidance" (PDF).
- "Benjamin Alarie | University of Toronto Faculty of Law". www.law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- "Canadian Income Tax Law, 6th Edition". store.lexisnexis.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- Alarie, Benjamin (2018-09-19). "Turning Standards into Rules Part 1: Using Machine Learning to Predict Tax Outcomes". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3374042. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2018-12-04). "Turning Standards into Rules Part 2: How Do Financial Risk Factors Affect Debt vs. Equity Determinations?". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3374049. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2018-12-17). "Turning Standards into Rules — Part 3: Behavioral Control Factors in Employee vs. Independent Contractor Decisions". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3374051. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2018-12-27). "Turning Standards into Rules Part 4: Machine Learning and Economic Substance". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3374053. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2019-01-15). "Turning Standards into Rules — Part 5: Weighing the Factors in Capital Gains vs. Ordinary Income Decisions". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3374054. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2016-05-27). "The Path of the Law: Toward Legal Singularity". Rochester, NY. SSRN 2767835. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Duff, David G.; Alarie, Benjamin (2008). "The Legacy of UK Tax Concepts in Canadian Income Tax Law". Rochester, NY. SSRN 1120784. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Alarie, Benjamin (2009). "Mutual Misunderstanding in Contract". Rochester, NY. SSRN 1142941. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Green, Andrew James; Alarie, Benjamin (2007-09-07). "The Reasonable Justice: An Empirical Analysis of Justice Frank Iacobucci's Career on the Supreme Court of Canada". Rochester, NY. SSRN 1012925. Cite journal requires
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(help) - Green, Andrew James; Alarie, Benjamin (2007-09-18). "Policy Preference Change and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada". Rochester, NY. SSRN 1013560. Cite journal requires
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External links
- Profile in Toronto Life magazine
- TEDx talk by Benjamin Alarie
- Benjamin Alarie profile at University of Toronto
- SSRN profile