News

2018

• Mary Cavanagh and her team intervened before the CRTC in the Inquiry regarding the retail sales practices of Canada’s large telecommunications carriers

  Posted on Monday, October 22, 2018

  Prof Mary Cavanagh, a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Kristianne Anor, Sean Grassie, and Tara Hristov, the research assistants, intervened before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in the Inquiry regarding the retail sales practices of Canada’s large telecommunications carriers.

• Professors Elizabeth Dubois and Michael Pal appeared before the House of Commons

  Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018

  On October 2nd, 2018, Professors Elizabeth Dubois and Michael Pal, members of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, appeared before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI).

• The Centre for Law, Technology and Society welcomes Jason Millar as Faculty Member

  Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018

  Prof. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS), is delighted to announce that the Centre’s Management Committee approved the appointment of Dr. Jason Millar as CLTS Faculty Member.

• The CLTS welcomes Carlos Affonso Souza as uOttawa’s Visiting Professor

  Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2018

  Dr. Carlos Affonso Pereira Souza (UERJ / ITS Rio) will be visiting the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS) in September as part of the Office of the Vice President, Research Visiting Researchers Program.

• Professor Florian Martin-Bariteau Awarded CBA Grant for Research into Blockchain and Smart Contracts

  Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2018

  Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau has been awarded a grant through the Canadian Bar Association’s Law for the Future Fund for a project that will shed new light on thi s phenomenon, entitled “Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and the Future of Contracts under Canadian Law.”

• CLTS welcomes Jean-Noé Landry as a Law Foundation of Ontario Fellow on Smart Cities

  Posted on Monday, September 10, 2018

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Law Foundation of Ontario has awarded a Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic term to Jean-Noé Landry, Executive Director at OpenNorth, for a project on smart cities.

   

• Professor Suzanne Bouclin Awarded Interdisciplinary Grant from Global Young Academy for Research on Saving an Endangered Language in Ethopia

  Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2018

  Professor Suzanne Bouclin, along with collaborator Binyam Sisay Mendisu, have been awarded the Global Young Academy’s North-South Interdisciplinary Grant for a project that brings together the fields of human rights, new media technologies and linguistics to explore how digital storytelling can help to document vulnerable languages.

• The CLTS is seeking assistants for the 2018-2019 academic year

  Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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• Virginie Jetté named Global Internet Policy Fellow by ITS Rio

  Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2018

  The Centre for  Law, Technology and Society is pleased to announce that Virginie Jetté has been named Global Policy Global Fellow by the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio, Brazil).

• Professors Kerr and Martin-Bariteau recruited for strategic S$4.5M Asia-Pacific research grant on the governance of AI and data use

  Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2018

  Professors Ian Kerr and Florian Martin-Bariteau are key partners in a S$4.5 million research grant awarded to the Singapore Management University School of Law by Singapore’s National Research Foundation and the Infocomm Media Development Authority for a five-year Research Programme on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Use.