Thought Leadership

2020

• Realigning the Law to Better Uphold the State’s Duty to Protect Human Rights: Towards an Interoperable Model for Addressing Racism and Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy

  

  Karen Eltis | Y. Shany, Reducing Online Hate Speech, 2020 p.187 

• Open AIR Releases Major Report on Innovation and Open Collaborative Models to Help Scale Africa’s Knowledge-based Enterprises

  Posted on Monday, June 22, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the release of “Scaling Innovation: How Open Collaborative Models Help Scale Africa’s Knowledge-based Enterprises”, a new report by the Open AIR that reviews how African knowledge-based businesses are scaling.

• Heritage Minister raises possibility of link tax for internet companies

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | June 21, 2020

• Social Media and Democracy: Challenges for Election Law and Administration in Canada

  

  Michael Pal | Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2020)

• A look back at what happened in May 2020

  

  The CLTS Monthly Newsletter

• COVID-19: In the Shadow of Ebola, the Patent War to Come and a Forgotten Africa

  

  Chidi Oguamanam | ABS Canada | May 25, 2020

• One app per province? How Canada’s federalism complicates digital contact tracing

  

  Teresa Scassa | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC | May 20, 2020

• Let’s Weaponize Social Media Against COVID-19

  

  Vivek Krishnamurthy | Slate | May 15, 2020

• Five ways a COVID-19 contact-tracing app could make things worse

  

  Jason Millar | Policy Options | May 15, 2020

• Citizens and their Political Institutions in a Digital Context

  

  Elizabeth Dubois & Florian Martin-Bariteau | B. Dutton, A Research Agenda for Digital Politics, Elgar, 2020, p. 2020