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Prof. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, is delighted to announce that the Centre’s Management Committee approved the appointment of two new Faculty members from the University of Ottawa: Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (Faculty of Arts) and Dr. Michael Pal (Faculty of Law), as well as seven Associate Members drawn from our international research network: Dr. Eri...

On December 6th, 2017, Prof Michael Geist, member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, appeared before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI).

On November 29th, 2017, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) intervened before the Supreme Court of Canada in Haaretz.com, et al. v. Mitchell Goldhar.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Center and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, publishes "Le droit de marque : une approche fonctionnelle dans l'économie globale et numérique" with LexisNexis Canada.

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Six students working with Faculty members of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are among the grant recipients from the University of Ottawa’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program for 2018: Pier-Luc Bisaillon Landry, Uttra Gautam, Sean Grassie, Alyssa Hall, Tara Hrisov and Véronique Newman.

Led by Ian Kerr, a Faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Rich Sutton and Doina Precup, more than 200 members of the Canadian research community exhort the Prime Minister of Canada to join the international call to ban lethal autonomous weapons that remove meaningful human control in the deployment of lethal force.

Professor Teresa Scassa, member of the Centre, has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy. This Chair will allow her to continue her innovative research advancing knowledge and informing public policy-making on issues of the ownership, control, and transparency of information and data within the evolving context of the e-Society. With the Chair, she will earn $1...

Professor Ian Kerr, member of the Centre, has renewed his Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology, bringing $1.5 million to uOttawa to develop Robotics and AI Law and Policy. His research will focus on the merger of humans and machines and the ethical, legal and social ramifications of this union.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is happy to launch the call for applications for the 2018 Technoships, a unique research program in law and technology for first-year students.