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Brandon Mattalo

Assistant Professor, Management
bmattalo@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
Brandon Mattalo is an expert in business law, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, contract law, intellectual property law and technology law.

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Governance
  • Law
  • Management

Biography

Brandon Mattalo is an assistant professor in the Strategic Management area of the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is a lawyer holding a Juris Doctor (JD) from Queen's University and a Master of Laws (LLM), with a specialization in business law, from the University of Toronto. Brandon Mattalo is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and continues a part-time practice as a freelance litigation lawyer, practicing primarily in commercial litigation.

Brandon teaches Business Law in the BBA program and Legal and Ethical Issues in Data Analytics in the MMA program.

External Involvement/Affiliations

  • President, Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business
  • Articles Editor, Journal of Legal Studies Education
  • Affiliated Researcher, The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law

Brandon Mattalo is also the director of the Lazaridis Intellectual Property Lab, providing legal information services to the innovation and start-up communities in the Waterloo and Brantford communities.

Brandon Mattalo is interested in researching business law, with a focus on the intersection of law and technology. Brandon Mattalo is also interested in pedagogical practices, and particularely, the use of technology in teaching.

Ongoing Projects

  • Jonathan Farrar, Harjot Mehmi, Brandon Mattalo, and Jayeon Ma, "Foxes in the henhouse? Investigating criminal bias in tax court decisions", presented at the Canadian Law and Economics Conference (Toronto, 2024).
  • Rima Khatib and Brandon Mattalo, "Enhancing Learning Experiences with ChatGPT: A Tutorial Approach", to be presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (Bangkok, 2024)

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