Dr. Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at Western University, jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). Sam’s research, which is at the intersection of Library and Information Science and Law, focuses on information policy issues. He is a frequent speaker on information law and policy issues and is the co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide (with Laura Murray, Between the Lines, 2007).

In the Law Faculty his teaching has included Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Comparative Copyright, Copyright Theory Seminar, Information Law, Urban Law and the graduate seminar in legal theory. In FIMS he has taught Legal Issues for Information Professionals, International Documents, Information Policy, Legal Information Sources and Services, Political Economy of Information Seminar, and Perspectives in Library and Information Science.