Professor Michael Geist has been named the “Fulbrighter of the Month” for October by Fulbright Canada, which operates an educational exchange program between Canada and the United States.
The Supreme Court of Canada granted CIPPIC leave to intervene in Crookes v. Newton, a case that will address when, if ever, the act of posting a hyperlink can amount to defamatory publication.
On September 30, 2010 Professor Teresa Scassa will be giving a talk at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University entitled: “Performance enhancing rights: Ambush marketing laws and major sporting events”
Professor Ian Kerr visited CBC Radio One’s Ottawa Morning on July 12, 2010 to discuss the “Money at My Fingertips” optional payment system at Ottawa’s new Calypso Water Park, which uses cutting-edge fingerprint scanning technology.
Professor Scassa has published a paper in the most recent issue of the Queen’s Law Journal, entitled “Journalistic Purposes and Private Sector Data Protection Legislation: Blogs, Tweets and Information Maps.”
Professor Michael Geist has been named “Lawyer of the Week” and featured in an article entitled “Canada’s technology law guru” in the July 2, 2010 edition of The Lawyers Weekly.
