Thomas Burelli

Thomas Burelli

Associate professor in law
University of Ottawa

Creating a game to teach video game law : what did we learn?

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Thomas Burelli is a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section. His areas of expertise are environmental law, natural resources and video game law. He is the co-author of the website “Learning in Progress” : https://lip-aec.com/. On this website, he is sharing simulations and games he has developed with Alexandre Lillo in order to teach Law.

He is the co-holder of a Research Chair in Teaching Innovation at the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa. He is also an active member of a Community of Practice dedicated to game-based learning at the University of Ottawa. He has contributed to creating open education resources, such as the Educational Games Group eBook entitled Using Game-Based Learning Online – A Cookbook of Recipes. More recently, he participated to a project where the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law was reproduced in Minecraft.