News

2019

• Our Community Mourns the Passing of Dr Ian Kerr

  Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2019

  

  It is with enormous grief and sadness that we announce that our dear friend, colleague, and world-widely renowned law and technology expert, Dr. Ian Kerr passed away on August 27, 2019 due to complications arising from cancer.

• Elizabeth Dubois Receives SSHRC Grant to Study Online Harassment of Political Journalists

  Posted on Tuesday, August 20, 2019

  

  CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois has received an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a project entitled “Mean Tweets: The impact of online harassment on political journalists in Canada”. Her research will examine the ways in which journalists respond to online harassment, as well as differences in the quantity and type of harassment received based on gender.

• CLTS welcomes back B. Courtney Doagoo as AI & Society Fellow

  Posted on Monday, August 19, 2019

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. B. Courtney Doagoo will be returning to its community as an Artificial Intelligence and Society Fellow.

• We Robot 2020 | Call for proposals

  Posted on Monday, July 22, 2019

  

  We are pleased to invite submissions for We Robot 2020, the 9th annual robotics law, ethics and policy conference, to be held at the University of Ottawa, Canada, on April 2–4, 2020. Previously, the conference has been held at the University of Miami, the University of Washington, Stanford University, and Yale University.

• CLTS engaged in a $2.5 Million SSHRC Partnership Grant for the Global Journalism Innovation Lab

  Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2019

  

  CLTS Faculty members Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, and Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, are co-investigators on a strategic $2.5 Million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) on journalism innovation that will support the development of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab/Lab mondial d’innovation en journalisme. The Centre is also a partner of this strategic grant.

   

• Teresa Scassa appointed chair of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council

  Posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2019

  

  Faculty member Dr Teresa Scassa has been appointed Chair of the Government of Canada’s new Canadian Statistics Advisory Council. The Council will advise the Chief Statistician and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development on matters concerning the overall quality of the national statistical system, including the relevance, accuracy, accessibility and timeliness of its data.

• Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge Launched ahead of 2019 Election

  Posted on Monday, June 24, 2019

  

  Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and a CLTS Faculty Member, received, with Dr. Taylor Owen (McGill University), a Canada History Fund grant to run the Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge, a call for proposals for projects examining the uses and impacts of digital media in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election.

• Marina Pavlović and Amy Salyzyn join project on regulating technologies for common legal problems

  Posted on Monday, June 24, 2019

  

  CLTS Faculty Members Prof. Marina Pavlović and Dr. Amy Salyzyn are co-applicants on a Justice and technology research grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a project led by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) on the regulation of technologies designed to assist the general public with legal documents.

• Amy Salyzyn awarded grant for project studying public understanding of complex legal documents

  Posted on Friday, June 21, 2019

  

  Dr Amy Salyzyn has received a Justice and technology research grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a two-year project that will examine how the public reads and understands complex court documents.

   

• Jason Millar Awarded Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and AI

  Posted on Monday, June 17, 2019

  

  Dr. Jason Millar, a Faculty member of the Centre, has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Situated in the Faculty of Engineering, this unique SSHRC-funded Chair will enable Dr. Millar to further develop his interdisciplinary research bringing ethics and policy considerations to bear on the engineering of emerging robotics and AI.