Thought Leadership

2021

• How Can I Tell if My Algorithm Was Reasonable?

  

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

• Jane Bailey co-edits the Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse

  Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2021

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Emerald Publishing published The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse, co-edited by CLTS Faculty Member Prof. Jane Bailey.

• 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)

• Florian Martin-Bariteau and Teresa Scassa publish Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada

  Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2021

  

  The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce the publication by LexisNexis Canada of Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada edited by Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Dr. Teresa Scassa.

  Bringing together some of the leading Canadian scholars in the field, the peer-reviewed collection captures the diversity of law and policy challenges facing Canada when it comes to AI. It offers insight into how existing laws might apply, what gaps are present, and what issues law reform should address. Dedicated to Dr. Ian R. Kerr, the book opens with a foreword by Madam Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada who offers a heartfelt tribute to our missed colleague.

• uOttawa researchers contribute to Harvard Berkman-Klein Center-led international report on digital ethics and education in the times of COVID-19

  Posted on Monday, March 8, 2021

  

  Researchers from the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society contributed to Digital Ethics in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 and Access to Education and Learning Spaces, an international report led by the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in collaboration with the Global Network of Internet and Society Centers.

• CIFAR releases uOttawa-led report on AI and Healthcare

  Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2021

  

  The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is delighted to announce the release of AI & Health Care: A Fusion of Law & Science. An Introduction to the Issues, an initial finding report supported by CIFAR AI and Society Program and led by Dr. Colleen M. Flood.

   

• Jeremy De Beer releases report on consumer-related copyright issues

  Posted on Monday, March 1, 2021

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Jeremy De Beer released Consumer-related Copyright Issues on the Internet of Things: A study of connected objects available to Canadian consumers, a report for the Office of Consumer Affairs co-written with Jules Bélanger and Mohit Sethi which sheds light on the implications of copyright policy on Canadian consumers.

• 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