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Professors Steeves and Bailey have been invited to speak at the Canadian Access and Privacy Association Conference in Ottawa on December 8. Professor Steeves will present "Young Canadians in a Wired World Data on Privacy" and Professors Bailey and Steeves will present "eGirls: gender, privacy, cyberbullying and equality in online social networking". Congratulations!

The First-Year Technoship Program was developed to provide University of Ottawa law students with financial assistance, to cultivate mentoring relationships, and to offer an early opportunity to work with faculty from the Centre for Law, Technology and Society on current research initiatives. Eligibility: This program is exclusively for 1st year students in both the English and French common law program. Selected students will receive $1000 remuneration for their work.

Professor Ian Kerr has been busy recently promoting the international “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots,” a movement led by coalition of non-governmental organizations from around the world working to ban fully autonomous weapons.

On March 28, 2014, the eGirls Project will host the eGirls Public Conference, "eGirls eCitizens: Putting Theory, Policy & Education into Dialogue with the Voices of Girls and Young Women"

Students from the Common Law Section have once again won major accolades at the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Competition. Lisa Danay, Megan Martins, and Laura Morrison won first prize for best written submissions, and the team reached the semi-finals for the third straight year, going undefeated through all preliminary rounds and the quarterfinals.

Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Fauteux Hall, Room 351

Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 4:00p.m.-6:00pm
Desmarais Hall, room 12110 (12th floor)

Common Law students were victorious at the 2014 Harold G. Fox Canadian Intellectual Property Moot, which took place in Toronto on February 21 and 22, 2014. In addition to winning the overall championship, Common Law won four of five possible prizes.