For 25 years, the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society has been leading global conversations on the impact of technology on society and fundamental rights and liberties in efforts to shape policy for a better future in the digital context.
Our community is expanding by welcoming three new professors from the University of Ottawa as Faculty members supporting our mission to research, analyze and shed light on the complex and interdependent relationships between law, technology and society, and guide policy makers in Canada and around the world.
Canada’s leading research group on technology law, ethics and policy, the Centre is now gathering in an interdisciplinary setting, 29 Faculty members from the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, Law, and Social Sciences, 16 Associate members and more than 150 fellows, researchers and students.
Dr. Étienne Brown
Dr. Étienne Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa and a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. He examines the ethics and political philosophy of the digital public sphere and new information technologies, including artificial intelligence. His current work examines the ethical implications of states and large digital platforms regulating online discourse, the philosophical underpinnings of recommendation algorithms, and freedom of expression in the age of large language models.
Dr. Daniel J. Paré
Dr. Daniel J. Pare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa and a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. His areas of ongoing research focus on social, economic, political, and technical issues arising from innovations in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing and industrialized countries.
Dr. Pag-yendu M. Yentcharé is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa and a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. His research lies at the intersection of law, technology, and environmental governance. He examines how emerging technologies – such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gene-editingtechnologies – interact with global environmental regulation and public policy, and how Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Traditional Knowledge, understood as a technology in its own right, is governed at the nexus of intellectual property and environmental law.