Michael Lang

Michael is a lawyer and member of the Law Society of Ontario. He graduated from the McGill Faculty of Law’s joint BCL/LLB program with honours in 2018. He is an LLM candidate in McGill’s Faculty of Law, where he is preparing a thesis on artificially intelligent decision-making in medicine and the right to explanation. He has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Alberta. Michael’s research broadly addresses the ways that technology is changing healthcare, with a particular focus on mobile health applications, artificial intelligence, and professional responsibility. Michael is broadly interested in the ways that technology affect the relationship between physicians and their patients, how the law understands personhood, and how humans interact with the natural environment.

RESEARCH AREAS

Mobile health applications, Artificial intelligence, Algorithmic clinical decision-making, Professional responsibility