Network Investigator: Samuel Trosow

Contact Information

• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law / Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western
• 1.519.661.2111 x82282 (voice)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://samtrosow.ca/
• Theme 4 Leader

GRAND Projects

• Digital Infrastructures: Access and Use in the Networked Society
• Digital Labour: Authors, Institutions and the New Media
• Usable Privacy and Security for New Media Environments

Biography

Dr. Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario holding a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law and in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS). In the Law Faculty his teaching has included Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Comparative Copyright, Copyright Theory Seminar, Information Law, Urban Law and the graduate LL.M. seminar in legal theory. In FIMS he has taught Legal Issues for Information Professionals, International Documents, Information Policy, Legal Information Sources and Services, Political Economy of Information Seminar, and Perspectives in Library and Information Science.

Before coming to Western in 2001, Trosow was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at UC Berkeley and was previously engaged in the private practice of law. His doctoral work at UCLA in Library & Information Science focused on information policy issues and his dissertation (Information for Society: Towards a Critical Theory of Intellectual Property Policy, 2002) received the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) - Eugene Garfield Dissertation Award. During the 2007-08 year he served as the Faculty Scholar in Residence at the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa. He is a member of the Copyright Working Group of the Canadian Library Association and is also active in civic affairs in London Ontario, where he serves as chairperson of the city's Housing Advisory Committee.

Trosow's research, which is at the intersection of Library & Information Science and Law, focuses on information policy issues, particularly copyright. He is a frequent speaker on copyright policy issues and is the co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide (with Laura Murray, Between the Lines, 2007).