News

2020

• Teresa Scassa publishes “Digital Commerce in Canada”

  Posted on Friday, May 1, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa just published Digital Commerce in Canada with LexisNexis Canada.

• Elizabeth Dubois receives the 2020 Arts Early Researcher of the Year Award

  Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

  

  We are delighted to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, a CLTS Faculty member and an Assistant Professor within the Department of Communication at the Faculty of Arts, has been awarded the Faculty of Arts’ 2020 Early Researcher of the Year Award.

• Uchenna F. Ugwu successfully defended her PhD in Law thesis

  Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that on Friday, 17th April 2020, Uchenna F. Ugwu successfully defended her PhD in Law thesis titled “Harnessing the Multilateral Patent and Plant Variety Protection Regimes to Advance Food Security: Implications of the EU-ECOWAS Economic Partnership Agreement,” and written under the supervision by CLTS Faculty members, Professor Chidi Oguamanam and Professor Jeremy de Beer.

• Dr Alschner and Dr Martin-Bariteau Received Tenure

  Posted on Wednesday, April 8, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that two of its Faculty members have received tenure and are being promoted to the rank of Associate Professors on May 1st, 2020: Dr Wolfgang Alschner, and Dr Florian Martin-Bariteau.

• CLTS is introducing #CLTSRewind !

  

• CLTS Welcomes 49 Technoship Fellows

  Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to welcome 49 fellows as part of the 2020 edition of its flagship program of Technoships, a unique research training program in technology law, ethics and policy for first-year students.

• uOttawa and Scotiabank announce major gift for the creation of the AI + Society Initiative

  Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2020

  

  The University of Ottawa and Scotiabank announced the creation of a new Initiative that will define problems and identify solutions to essential issues related to ethical AI and technology development. The AI + Society Initiative will be led by Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section.

• CLTS Students from the University of Ottawa receive grants from the University of Ottawa undergraduate program for 2020

  Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2020

  Six students working with Faculty members at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are among the grant recipients from the University of Ottawa’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program for 2018: Omair Jafrani, Kate Kim, Alicia Cooke, James Howe, Colby Georgson and Nadia Ackah.