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Professor Jane Bailey has received a Visiting Professor appointment at Hong Kong University starting this January.Professor Bailey will teach an intensive winter term seminar course at the HKU Faculty of Law called Human Rights and CyberspaceClick here for more information on this honour.Congratulations, Professor Bailey! ...

Professor Michael Geist has been named the “Fulbrighter of the Month” for October by Fulbright Canada, which operates an educational exchange program between Canada and the United States.

Professor Jeremy deBeer has published a paper in the most recent issue of the journal Les cahiers de propriété intellectuelle, entitled “La Commission du droit d'auteur du Canada : vingt années à « faire » l'histoire Juridique.”

An alumnus of the Fulbright Canada program, Prof. Geist was chosen for the monthly award after being named one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property magazine. He was also recently awarded an IP3 Award by Public Knowledge, a Washington-based public interest group that defends the rights of citizens ...

The Supreme Court of Canada granted CIPPIC leave to intervene in Crookes v. Newton, a case that will address when, if ever, the act of posting a hyperlink can amount to defamatory publication.

On September 30, 2010 Professor Teresa Scassa will be giving a talk at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University entitled: “Performance enhancing rights: Ambush marketing laws and major sporting events”.

Professor Jennifer Chandler has received a Visiting Associate Professor appointment at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, starting this September.

Professor Ian Kerr visited CBC Radio One’s Ottawa Morning on July 12, 2010 to discuss the “Money at My Fingertips” optional payment system at Ottawa’s new Calypso Water Park, which uses cutting-edge fingerprint scanning technology.

Professor Scassa has published a paper in the most recent issue of the Queen’s Law Journal, entitled “Journalistic Purposes and Private Sector Data Protection Legislation: Blogs, Tweets and Information Maps.”

Professor Michael Geist has been named “Lawyer of the Week” and featured in an article entitled “Canada’s technology law guru” in the July 2, 2010 edition of The Lawyers Weekly.