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The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Michael Geist has received the Privacy & Access Council of Canada (PACC) Fellowship Award for his work in privacy and access to information in Canada. 

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Prof. Jane Bailey and Associate member Prof. Suzie Dunn were named by Women and Gender Equality Canada as members of the Canadian delegation for the UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings in New York, which ran from March 6-17, 2023. 

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society celebrates another stellar year at the Harold G. Fox 2023 Intellectual Property Moot championship. The uOttawa Common Law team was led by captain Daniella Febbraro, and featured Kaitlyn Margison and Alessandra Puopolo on the Appellant’s side, and Hannah Goold and Jordan Geist arguing the Respondent’s side, and were coached by Professor Jeremy de Beer, Professor David Fewer, and Dr. Christian Clavette. 

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society celebrates another successful year at the 20th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot. Julia Kafato, Ana Nizharadze, and Jessica Rollins, coached by Professor Jeremy de Beer, brought home a first-place finish. The achievements of this year’s Oxford team affirm a long-standing tradition of international IP mooting success for the University of Ottawa team.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to welcome 53 fellows as part of the 2023 edition of its flagship program of Technoships, a unique research training program in technology law, ethics and policy for first-year students.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication by  Palgrave Macmillan Cham of Copyright and Tertiary Education Regimes in Ethiopia: Exploring Interfaces for Human Development  by Dr. Sileshi Bedasie Hirko, a PhD graduate and former postdoctoral fellow with Open AIR. 

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa has been awarded “Best Developments in the Field Article of 2021” by the Development in the Field Panel of the Cambridge University Press for her article “Pandemic Innovation: The Private Sector and the Development of Contact-Tracing and Exposure Notification Apps”.