News

2016

• Karen Eltis, Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves have been awarded research contracts on cyberdefamation by the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO)

  Posted on Friday, November 4, 2016

  

  Following the call for applications regarding the law of deffamation, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) has selected two proposals led by faculty members of the Center for Law, Technology and Society.

• Professor Geist Wins Inaugural Open Scholarship Award

  Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2016

  

  Professor Michael Geist has been awarded the University of Ottawa Library’s first annual Open Scholarship Award, which recognizes faculty members who demonstrate excellence in supporting and practicing open scholarship.

• Jane Bailey Co-edits New Book on eAccess to Justice

  Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2016

  

  Professor Jane Bailey is a co-editor, alongside Karim Benyehklef, Jacquelyn Burkell and Fabien Gelinas, of a new book entitled eAccess to Justice, published by uOttawa Press.  It is part of a new series on law and technology and is available for free download.

• Call for applications for the 2017 « Technoships »

  Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2016

  Please note this competition is closed.

• Review of the Wireless Code: Prof. Pavlović & Cavanagh submitted an intervention to the CRTC

  Posted on Thursday, October 6, 2016

  

  The review of the Wireless Code is underway. In accordance with the CRTC Notice of consultation, Prof Marina Pavlović, Prof Mary Cavanagh, Sean Grassie, and Lora Hamilton, submitted an intervention and a request to appear at the hearing before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Their submission offers the preliminary findings from the Law Foundation of Ontario funded project “Mapping the Front End: Legal Information Seeking Practices”.

• Several graduate CLTS' students are granted scholarships

  Posted on Friday, September 23, 2016

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society wishes to acknowledge and congratulate his graduate students who have been granted scholarships.

• Ian Kerr has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for "In machines we trust – developing frameworks for the governance of machines with artificial intelligence"

  Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2016

  

  Professor Ian Kerr, along with Jacquelyn A. Burkell (Western University) and Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), has been awarded $187,990 for their initiative: In machines we trust – developing frameworks for the governance of machines with artificial intelligence.

• Karen Eltis promoted to the rank of Full Professor

  Posted on Monday, September 19, 2016

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is proud to announce that Professor Karen Eltis, one of its faculty members, has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at the Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

• Mistrale Goudreau and her coresearcher receive a 109 374$ grant from SSHRC for "The Prism of Corporate Culture and the Protection of Inventions and Data"

  Posted on Monday, September 19, 2016

  

  Professors Mistrale Goudreau and Margaret Ann Wilkinson (University of Western Ontario) are receiving $109,374 from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to support four years of research into “The Prism of Corporate Culture and the Protection of Inventions and Data.”

• CIPPIC and Citizen Lab publish the "Gone Opaque?" report on IMSI Catchers

  Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2016

  

  CIPPIC, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, and Citizen Lab are releasing a report, "Gone Opaque? An Analysis of Hypothetical IMSI Catcher Overuse in Canada", which examines the use of devices that are commonly referred to as ‘cell site simulators’, ‘IMSI Catchers’, ‘Digital Analyzers’, or ‘Mobile Device Identifiers’, and under brand names such as ‘Stingray’, DRTBOX, and ‘Hailstorm’. IMSI Catchers are a class of of surveillance devices used by Canadian state agencies. They enable state agencies to intercept communications from movie devices and are principally used to identify otherwise anonymous individuals associated with a mobile device and track them.