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Shaheen Shariff

Shaheen Shariff

Affiliate Scholar

Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Shariff's research and teaching are grounded in the study of law as it impacts educational policy and practice. In particular, she is interested in studying legal issues that emerge in relation to on-line social communications such as cyber-hate, cyber-bullying, sexting, free expression, privacy harm, libel and criminal harassment. Her work addresses the emerging policy vacuum on legal and ethical limits of on-line expression, such as the line between joking and cyber-threats; fair use; privacy rights and privacy harm, cyber-safety, cyber-libel; and school supervision. She is also studying girls' use of on-line social media and its role in identity development for teens and pre-teens. Dr. Shariff was invited to participate on a United Nations panel on cyber-hate chaired by Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, and appeared as a panelist with the First Amendment Center’s online symposium. She has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada and is currently developing an interactive resource website to bring stakeholders together in dialogue towards the development of informed policies and educational practice.

Recent articles

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#blurred_boundaries

When Shaheen Shariff asked a group of under-18-year-olds whether a teenage girl has the right to object to her boyfriend sharing a nude photo of her with his fr…

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Ontario students win charter challenge

"The ruling also shows how hard it can be for schools to balance increasingly high expectations of safety and also increasingly high standards of respect f…

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Police warn Welsh pupils over 'sexting'

"ANALYSIS - Prof Shaheen Shariff, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Author of Sexting and Cyberbullying - Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids…

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Film screening takes on cyber bullying

"The 23-minute, 2012 documentary was produced by Alberta’s BearPaw Media Productions. It features interviews with Canadian bullying expert Dr. Shaheen Shar…

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Bullying 2.0

"According to Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill whose research focuses on bullying and cyberbullying, “Bringing in laws may not really solv…