News

2020

• Wolfgang Alschner launches CFI-funded Legal Technology Lab

  Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology, and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Wolfgang Alschner, received a strategic funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to launch a new Legal Technology Lab, with a mission to harness technology in an effort to reduce law's complexity

• Céline Castets-Renard releases report on facial recognition and policing

  Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020

  

  Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, just released Cadre juridique applicable à l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par les forces de police dans l’espace public au Québec et au Canada: Éléments de comparaison avec les États-Unis et l’Europe, a new report offering a comparative study on facial recognition and policing.

• Céline Castets-Renard appeared before the National Assembly of Québec to discuss privacy

  Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2020

  

  Twice over the past months, Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, appeared before the National Assembly of Québec to share her expertise on privacy.

• A look back at what happened in September 2020

  

  The CTLS Monthly Newsletter

• Elizabeth Dubois Launches a Podcast on Political Communication

  Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois has launched Wonks and War Rooms, a new podcast where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy.

• uOttawa Launches New Online Microprogram in Law and Technology

  Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the creation of a new online graduate microprogram in law and technology, developed by the Faculty of Law in collaboration with three CLTS Faculty members.

• Karine Gentelet Awarded the Abeona-ENS-OBVIA Research Chair on AI and Social Justice

  Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Associate member Dr. Karine Gentelet has been awarded the Research Chair on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Justice by Fondation Abeona, École normale supérieure (ENS) and OBVIA. 

• A look back at what happened in August 2020

  

  The CLTS Monthly Newsletter

• The University of Ottawa Launches New Research Project on AI for Healthy Humans and Environments

  Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2020

  

  Thanks to a generous gift from Alex Trebek, the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue at the University of Ottawa is supporting the creation of a new research project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Healthy Humans and Environments to shape the future of health, food and environmental policy making at the AI + Society Initiative.

• Dr. Paul Daly Receives SSHRC Insight Grant on Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Law

  Posted on Monday, August 24, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Paul Daly has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project entitled Artificial Administration: Administrative Law, Administrative Justice and Accountability Mechanisms in the Age of Machines.