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Professor Michael Geist has been awarded the University of Ottawa Library’s first annual Open Scholarship Award, which recognizes faculty members who demonstrate excellence in supporting and practicing open scholarship.

Professor Jane Bailey is a co-editor, alongside Karim Benyehklef, Jacquelyn Burkell and Fabien Gelinas, of a new book entitled eAccess to Justice, published by uOttawa Press. It is part of a new series on law and technology and is available for free download.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is happy to launch the call for applications for the 2017 Technoships, a unique research program in law and technology for first-year students.

Between September 19 and 23, 2016, the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) commenced the first of a two-part negotiation over a potential instrument for the effective protection of traditional knowledge (TK), pursuant to its mandate for the 2016-2017 biennium. In the summer, the IGC concluded negotiations on Gene...

The review of the Wireless Code is underway. In accordance with the CRTC Notice of consultation, Prof Marina Pavlović, Prof Mary Cavanagh, Sean Grassie, and Lora Hamilton, submitted an intervention and a request to appear at the hearing before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Their submission offers the preliminary findings from the Law Foundation of Ontario ...

Don’t be stymied by confusing wireless service contracts. Know your rights as a Canadian telecom consumer before you head out to catch ‘em all.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society wishes to acknowledge and congratulate his graduate students who have been granted scholarships.

Professor Ian Kerr, a member of the Center for Law, Technology and Society, has been awarded a $187,990 Insight Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for their initiative: In machines we trust – developing frameworks for the governance of machines with artificial intelligence.

Professors Mistrale Goudreau, a faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and Margaret Ann Wilkinson (University of Western Ontario) are receiving $109,374 from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to support four years of research into “The Prism of Corporate Culture and the Protection of Inventions and Data.”

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is proud to announce that Professor Karen Eltis, one of its faculty members, has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at the Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.