News

2020

• Dr Elizabeth Dubois Receives Tenure

  Posted on Monday, July 6, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that a third CLTS Faculty member, Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, has received tenure and been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective retroactively on May 1st, 2020.

• Michael Geist appointed to CIFAR Expert Advisory Group on COVID-19

  Posted on Monday, June 29, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, has been appointed to CIFAR’s COVID-19 Expert Advisory Group on Society, Technology and Ethics in a Pandemic.

• Dr. Jennifer Chandler named Interim Director of the Centre for Health Law, Politics and Ethics

  Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that beginning July 1, 2020, CLTS Faculty member Dr. Jennifer Chandler has been named Interim Director of the Centre for Health Law, Politics and Ethics.

• Tenille E. Brown appointed as Assistant Professor at Bora Laskin Faculty of Law

  Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that PhD candidate Tenille E. Brown has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University. 

   

• 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.

• Dr. Mary Cavanagh appointed Director of the School of Information Studies

  Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Mary Cavanagh has been appointed Director of School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa.

• Esther Ekong Receives a Philanthropic Educational Organization Award

  Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that PhD candidate Esther Ekong has been awarded an International Peace Scholarship by the Philanthropic Educational Organization.

• Sileshi Hirko successfully defended his PhD in Law thesis

  Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that, on May 1st, 2020, Sileshi Hirko has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Law on Copyright, Development and the Human Right to Education in Ethiopia, written under the supervision by CLTS Faculty members, Professor Chidi Oguamanam and Professor Jeremy de Beer.

• Teresa Scassa publishes “Digital Commerce in Canada”

  Posted on Friday, May 1, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa just published Digital Commerce in Canada with LexisNexis Canada.

• Elizabeth Dubois receives the 2020 Arts Early Researcher of the Year Award

  Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

  

  We are delighted to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, a CLTS Faculty member and an Assistant Professor within the Department of Communication at the Faculty of Arts, has been awarded the Faculty of Arts’ 2020 Early Researcher of the Year Award.