Thomas Burelli is a law professor in the Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa. In 2021, he decided to reconnect with one of his favourite hobbies and combine business with pleasure by creating a university course on video game law. In this course, he explores issues related to both video game design — including questions of ownership, especially when players create their own mods — and the regulation of their marketing (such as game classification, environmental impact, and addiction-related concerns). He also examines legal issues tied to video game use, including esports, streaming, and efforts to combat toxicity.

In 2020, to counter the effects of the pandemic, he and Alexandre Lillo recreated the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law within the game Minecraft. In 2021, breaking their vow never to make a video game, they began developing one on the theme of video game law: Reset 2047. By 2023, having clearly not learned his lesson, he coordinated the creation of a new game set within the Supreme Court of Canada: Les échos de la cour (Echoes of the Court), scheduled for release in October 2025.