Benjamin Alarie

CEO

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Benjamin Alarie

Blue J

CEO

Benjamin Alarie is a law professor, author and entrepreneur. 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 leverages 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. Among his books are several editions of a leading legal text on tax law (LexisNexis), a study of the institutional constraints on judicial decision-making on national supreme courts (Oxford University Press, 2017) and The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023).