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Michael Karanicolas has been with CLD since Spring 2010. An internationally published writer and photographer, Michael takes a personal interest in issues of free speech and journalists’ rights. Michael has a BAH (Dean’s List) from Queen’s University, and an LLB from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, where he was awarded the McInnes Cooper Internet and Media Law Prize and the Professor Ronald St. John Macdonald Prize for International Law. Michael’s main focus is on digital rights and freedom of expression online, including authoring publications on access to the Internet as a human rights, copyright reform and standards for digital surveillance. Michael also played a central role in developing and applying CLD’s Right to Information Rating Methodology, and has been involved in CLD projects in Canada, Indonesia, Lebanon, Myanmar and the Maldives.