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2013

• Upcoming event: A Conference to Launch: “The Copyright Pentalogy“

  Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013

  On October 4, 2013 the Centre for Law Technology and Society will host a conference to launch The Copyright Pentalogy (University of Ottawa Press, 2013) edited by Prof. Michael Geist. The event will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Desmarais Hall, room 12102 (12th floor).

• CanLII “Law, Government and Open Data” Conference and Hackathon

  Posted on Sunday, September 1, 2013

  CanLII and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are hosting the "Law, Government and Open Data" conference and hackathon at the University of Ottawa.

• Prof. Anne Uteck Successfully Defends her Doctoral Dissertation

  Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013

  On August 12, 2013, Sessional Professor Anne Uteck successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Reconceptualizing Spatial Privacy for the Internet of Everything” at the Faculty of Law.

• Prof. Scassa Wins 2013 Walter Owen Book Prize

  Posted on Monday, August 5, 2013

  Common Law’s Professor Teresa Scassa and Professor Michael Deturbide of Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law have been chosen as the 2013 winners of the Walter Owen Book Prize for their book Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada (2nd edition).

• Professor Geist Edits New Book: The Copyright Pentalogy

  Posted on Tuesday, July 2, 2013

  

  Professor Michael Geist has edited a new volume entitled The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, published by University of Ottawa Press

• Prof. Chandler Earns Funding as Key Member of Federal Transplant Research Program

  Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013

  Professor Jennifer Chandler has received $155,000 in funding as a co-leader of the Law and Ethics Group within the Canadian National Transplant Research Program (CNTRP). The funding will allow her to conduct ethical and legal research related to organ and tissue donation and transplantation over the next five years. She will be able to support graduate and JD students interested in working with her in this area.

• Prof. Kerr and Student Diana Cooper Speak at Stanford Law School

  Posted on Friday, April 12, 2013

  On April 8-9, 2013, Professor Ian Kerr and third-year common law student Diana Marina Cooper participated in the second annual robotics and the law conference: “We Robot: Getting Down to Business”, held at Stanford Law School. The conference examined the immediate and commercial prospects of robotics, including topics such as intellectual property, tort liability, legal ethics, and privacy by design.

• Student Jennifer Barrigar Successfully Defends her Doctoral Dissertation

  Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013

  On April 4, 2013, Jennifer Barrigar successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Time to Care about Reputation: Re-Viewing the Resonance and Regulation of Reputation,” putting an exclamation point on a gratifying course of study at the Faculty of Law, amongst a wealth of resources and experts.

• Prof. Scassa Publishes New Book on E-Commerce and Internet Law

  Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013

  Professor Teresa Scassa has published a new book, with Michael Deturbide of Dalhousie University, entitled Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, 2nd Edition.

• Common Law Students Win Oxford IP Moot

  Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013

  Common Law students Alexandra Mogyoros, Abigail Smith and John Wallace won first place at the Oxford International Intellectual Property (OXIP) Moot competition in Oxford, England, over the weekend of March 14-16, 2013.