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A roadmap for a sustainable made-in-Canada approach to AI

Answering Prime Minister Carney’s call for a “made-in-Canada” approach to AI, a new policy whitepaper co-led by Dr. Kelly Bronson and Dr. Anne Pasek charts a path forward for an approach centered around sovereignty, reconciliation, environmental action and affordability.
Answering Prime Minister Carney’s call for a “made-in-Canada” approach to AI, a new policy whitepaper co-led by Dr. Kelly Bronson and Dr. Anne Pasek charts a path forward for an approach centered around sovereignty, reconciliation, environmental action and affordability.

October 14, 2025
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A new volume of “Robot Law” co-edited by Kristen Thomasen

Edward Elgar Publishing has just published "Robot Law: Volume II”, a new landmark collection co-edited by Dr. Kristen Thomasen that delves into the legal, ethical and societal challenges that robotics and automated systems pose.
Edward Elgar Publishing has just published "Robot Law: Volume II”, a new landmark collection co-edited by Dr. Kristen Thomasen that delves into the legal, ethical and societal challenges that robotics and automated systems pose.

May 13, 2025
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Enabling quantum technology collaboration: uOttawa researchers support G7 policy conversation

To support G7 leaders in the quantum global race, Think7 selected policy proposals brought forth by University of Ottawa’s Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Tina Dekker, with Quantum Industry Canada’s CEO Lisa Lambert.
To support G7 leaders in the quantum global race, Think7 selected policy proposals brought forth by University of Ottawa’s Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Tina Dekker, with Quantum Industry Canada’s CEO Lisa Lambert.

May 8, 2025

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2025

David Murakami Wood, Post-smart cities as digital authoritarian polities: The aesthetic politics of the Praxis Network State. (Sage journals)

Chidi Oguamanam, Information Systems and Digitization of Traditional Knowledge: Trends in Cultural Heritage and Memory Institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty (The Journal of World Intellectual Property) 

David Murakami Wood, Only (dis)connect: Facing the intertwined (in)security of self, systems and society (First Monday)

Mistrale Goudreau, Jennifer Quaid, Réforme du droit de la concurrence – Perspective du détenteur de droit de propriété intellectuelle (Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle) 

Karen Eltis, Déléguer l’autorité au système ? L’extériorisation de la fonction judiciaire et le dé-agencement des juges (69 McGill L.J. 2025)

Suzie Dunn, Legal Definitions of Intimate Images in the Age of Sexual Deepfakes and Generative AI | CanLII(2024 69-4 McGill Law Journal 395, 2024 CanLIIDocs 3256)

Amy Salyzyn Jacquelyn Burkell, Esti Azizi and David Westcott, Court Form Accessibility: Adopting, Designing and Evaluating Online Guided Pathways (Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société | Cambridge Core) 

Matt Malone,The Citizen Lab’s Brave Fight Against Spyware(Centre for International Governance Innovation)

Teresa Scassa & Daniel Kim, AI Medical Scribes: Addressing Privacy and AI Risks with an Emergent Solution to Primary Care Challenges (SSRN)

2024

Teresa Scassa,The Shifting Value of Personal Data. The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2024.

Karen Eltis, Raymond Brown & Erika Chamberlain, The Law of Defamation: Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, 2nd edition (Thomson Reuters, 2024)

Wolfang Alschner, Carissima Mathen & Vanessa MacDonnell, Decoding the Court : Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada (Routledge, 2024)

Teresa Scassa, Issues in Open Data - Privacy (Data for Development) 

Renan Gadoni Canaan & Thales Martini Bueno, The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill (Telecommunications Policy Journal)

2023

Beyond the Numbers: Statistical and Data Literacy, Domain Literacy and Supreme Court of Canada Data Analytics

Jena McGill & Amy Salyzyn | SCLR Constitutional Cases Conference

Public Sector Use of Private Sector Personal Data: Towards Best Practices

Teresa Scassa | (2024) 47:2 Dalhousie Law Journal

Governing Human-Derived Data

Teresa Scassa | H. Tworek & T. Owen, Platform Governance in Canada, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions/Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, 2023

Regulating AI in Canada: A Critical Look at the Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act

Teresa Scassa | (2023) 101 Canadian Bar Review 1-30

Regulating Uncertain States: A Risk-Based Policy Agenda for Quantum Technologies

Florian Martin-Bariteau & Tina Dekker | (2022) 20:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 179

2022

Rethinking gender mainstreaming in agricultural innovation policy in Nepal: a critical gender analysis

Rachana Devkota, Kelly Bronson, Laxmi Prasad Pant, Helen Hambly Odame & Bimala Rai Paudyal | (2022) Agric Hum Values

Autonomous Artificial Intelligence and Liability: a Comment on List

Michael Da Silva | (2022) Philos. Technol. 35, 44

Perspective: Digital Agriculture

Mascha Gugganig & Kelly Bronson | David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista & Irena Knezevic, Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement (Food Studies Press, 2022)

The Datafication of Wastewater: Legal, Ethical and Civic Considerations

Teresa Scassa, Pamela Robinson & Ryan Mosoff | (2022) TechReg 2022, 23-35

Saving Bavarian Hops in a “Parallel Universe”: Lessons on the Biopolitics of Agricultural Labor in Germany During the Corona Pandemic. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Mascha Gugganig & Marlise Horvath Schneider | (2021) Cult Agric Food Environ, 43: 85-95

Data Science Meets Law: Learning Responsible AI Together

Karni Chagal-Feferkorn,Shlomi Hod, Niva Elkin-Koren & Avidor Gal | (2022) Commun. ACM 65, 2

2021

Courts in the Digital Age: "Adaptive Leadership" for Harnessing Technology and Enhancing Access to Justice

Karen Eltis | C. Hunt & R. Diab, The Last Frontier: Digital Privacy and the Charter (Thomson Reuters, 2022)

Tracking and Tracing During the Pandemic: Technology, Privacy and a Public Health Crisis

Teresa Scassa | C. Hunt & R. Diab, The Last Frontier: Digital Privacy and the Charter (Thomson Reuters, 2022)

Comparing AI Regulation in Canada and Europe

Céline Castets-Renard, Claire Boine, Anne-Sophie Hulin, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs | Law Commission of Ontario (2021)

Toward Survivor-Centred Outcomes for Targets of Privacy-Invasive TFVA: Assessing the Equality-Affirming Impact of R. v. Jarvis

Jane Bailey & Jasmine Dong | C. Hunt & R. Diab, The Last Frontier: Digital Privacy and the Charter (Thomson Reuters, 2022)

How Can I Tell if My Algorithm Was Reasonable?

Karni Chagal-Feferkorn | (2021) 27 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. 213

When AI Systems Are Negligent

Karni Chagal-Feferkorn | P. D’Agostino, C. Piovesan & A. Gaon, Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (Thomson Reuters, 2021)

Rights in data, the public interest, and international trade law

Teresa Scassa | Ingo Borchert & L. Alan Winters, Addressing Impediments to Digital Trade (CEPR Press, 2021)

Contracts, Copyright & Data on the Internet of Things

Jeremy de Beer, Mohit Sethi, & Jules Bélanger | (2020) 18 Can. J. L. & Tech. 161.

Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming

Mascha Gugganig & Laurie Waller | (2021) Public Understanding of Science

Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise: Divergent Sociotechnical Island Imaginaries

Mascha Gugganig | (2021) Science as Culture

Concevoir la matrice juridique dans un monde en constante évolution : essai sur l’approche fonctionnelle du droit

Florian Martin-Bariteau | (2020) 65:3 R.D. McGill 499.

Moving toward Generalizability? A Scoping Review on Measuring the Impact of Living Labs

Kelly Bronson, Rachana Devkota & Vivian Nguyen | (2021). Sustainability, MDPI, Open Access Journal, vol. 13(2), pages 1-16, January.

2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deployments in Africa: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Dimensions

Jeremy De Beer, Nagla Rizk, Isaac Rutenberg, Arthur Gwagwa & Erika Kraemer-Mbula | (2020) Thematic Issue: Collaborative Innovation in African Settings, AJIC Issue 26, 2020

Voter Privacy and Big-Data Elections

Elizabeth F. Judge & Michael Pal | (2020) 58 Osgoode Hall L. J. 1.

Algorithmic Content Moderation on Social Media in EU Law: Illusion of Perfect Enforcement

Céline Castets-Renard | (2020) 2 Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 283

Innovation in refugee economies: supporting intermediaries that embrace informality

Jeremy de Beer & Nicole Tumaine |  J. Charmes, Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy (E.Elgar, 2020)

Designing Data Governance for Data Sharing: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto

Teresa Scassa | (2020) Technology & Regulation 44-56.

Tort-law: Applying a 'Reasonableness' Standard to Algorithms

Karni Chagal-Feferkorn | Woodraw Barfield, Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

When Do Algorithmic Tortfeasors that Caused Damage Warrant Unique Legal Treatment?

Karni Chagal-Feferkorn | Woodraw Barfield, Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Sense and Similarity: Automating Legal Text Comparison

Wolfgang Alschner | R. Whalen, Computational Legal Studies: The Promise and Challenge of Data-Driven Research (E. Elgar, 2020)

Judging by Numbers: How Will Judicial Analytics Impact the Justice System and Its Stakeholders?

Jena McGill & Amy Salyzyn| (2021) 44:1 Dalhousie L.J.

Social Failure Modes in Technology and the Ethics of AI: An Engineering Perspective

Jason Millar | M. Dubber, F. Pasquale & S. Das, The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in the Middle East: The Political Economy of Inclusion

Nagla Rizk | M. Dubber, F. Pasquale & S. Das, The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Realigning the Law to Better Uphold the State’s Duty to Protect Human Rights: Towards an Interoperable Model for Addressing Racism and Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

Karen Eltis | Y. Shany, Reducing Online Hate Speech, 2020 p.187

Social Media and Democracy: Challenges for Election Law and Administration in Canada

Michael Pal | Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2020)

Citizens and their Political Institutions in a Digital Context

Elizabeth Dubois & Florian Martin-Bariteau | B. Dutton, A Research Agenda for Digital Politics, Elgar, 2020, p. 2020

Cybervetting and the Public Life of Social Media Data

Elizabeth Duboiset al. | Social Media + Society, 6:2 (2020)

Who to Trust on Social Media: How Opinion Leaders and Seekers Avoid Disinformation and Echo Chambers

Elizabeth Dubois et al. | Social Media + Society, 6:2 (2020)

Rapport Canadien: Le déréférencement à l’ère numérique – une approche hybride pour faire le pont entre la vision européenne et américaine du « droit à l’oubli »

Karen Eltiset al. | F. Werro, The Right To Be Forgotten. Springer, 2020. p. 265-288

2016

New Book: Courts, Litigants, and the Digital Age 2nd Edition, by Karen Eltis

A new publication by Professor Karen Eltis, "Courts, Litigants, and the Digital Age 2nd Edition."