Dr Michael J. S. Beauvais

Profile

Michael J. S. Beauvais is a Max Weber Fellow in the European University Institute’s Department of Law. Michael is currently researching how we regulate young people’s access to digital media and the Internet. His research interests – privacy, the regulation of technologies, and youth – lead him to explore issues in tort law, health law, data protection law, and related areas. His work bridges law with childhood studies, media studies, bioethics, and relational feminism. Michael earned his Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Toronto. In his dissertation, he defended a conception of adolescents’ informational privacy against their parents, which earned him a Governor General’s Gold Medal. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has supported his postdoctoral and doctoral research. Michael is an affiliate of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto and the Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law.

Research

Publications

• Michael J S Beauvais, Autonomy, Adolescents, and Artificial Intelligence, forthcoming 32 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. (2026), Law Archive: https://osf.io/preprints/lawarchive/rmkz8_v1
• Beauvais, Michael J.S., and Bartha Maria Knoppers. “Coming Out to Play: Privacy, Data Protection, Children’s Health, and COVID-19 Research.” Frontiers in Genetics 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.659027.
• Beauvais, Michael J. S., Adrian Thorogood, Michael J. Szego, Karine Sénécal, Ma’n H. Zawati, and Bartha Maria Knoppers. “Parental Access to Children’s Raw Genomic Data in Canada: Legal Rights and Professional Responsibility.” Frontiers in Genetics 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.535340.
• Beauvais, Michael J.S., and Bartha Maria Knoppers. “Coming Out to Play: Privacy, Data Protection, Children’s Health, and COVID-19 Research.” Frontiers in Genetics 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.659027.
• Beauvais, Michael J. S., Adrian Thorogood, Michael J. Szego, Karine Sénécal, Ma’n H. Zawati, and Bartha Maria Knoppers. “Parental Access to Children’s Raw Genomic Data in Canada: Legal Rights and Professional Responsibility.” Frontiers in Genetics 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.535340.
• Knoppers, Bartha Maria, and Michael J.S. Beauvais. “Three Decades of Genetic Privacy: A Metaphoric Journey.” Human Molecular Genetics, 30 (2021): R156–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab164.
• Beauvais, Michael J. S., Bartha Maria Knoppers, and Judy Illes. “A Marathon, Not a Sprint – Neuroimaging, Open Science and Ethics.” NeuroImage 236 (2021): 118041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118041.

Expertise