On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., Professor Teresa Scassa will be the featured guest on CBC Radio’s Spark with Nora Young, discussing Smart Cities. Tune in to learn more about the implications for intellectual property, privacy, and transparency of Smart Cities in what promises to be a fascinating program.
On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., Professor Teresa Scassa will be the featured guest on CBC Radio’s Spark with Nora Young, discussing Smart Cities. Tune in to learn more about the implications for intellectual property, privacy, and transparency of Smart Cities in what promises to be a fasc...
Jennifer Chandler*Psychosurgery has a bad name for a good reason. It is often associated with the mid-20th century prefrontal leucotomy (or lobotomy). This procedure garnered its inventor, Egon Moniz, the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949, and it went on to be applied to thousands of people around the world. In its heyday, the best kno...
Jennifer Chandler*Psychosurgery has a bad name for a good reason. It is often associated with the mid-20th century prefrontal leucotomy (or lobotomy). This procedure garnered its inventor, Egon Moniz, the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949, and...
Canada’s Drone Rules
Canada has been an early adopter of flexible regulations for limited commercial drone operations. The Canadian Aviation Regulations require all commercial Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV, or “drone”) operators to obtain special permission from Transport Canada before their respective flights. But, in 2014, Transport Canada carved out an exception to this requirement to allow some...
Canada’s Drone Rules
Canada has been an early adopter of flexible regulations for limited commercial drone operations. The Canadian Aviation Regulations require all commercial Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV, or “drone”) operators to obtain special permission from Transport Canada before their respecti...
“Killer Robots” might sound like a sci-fi thriller, but the threat they pose to international security is very real. A global coalition, which includes Common Law’s Professor Ian Kerr, is calling on Canada and other governments to ban autonomous weapons that would select targets and use force without further human intervention or oversight.
“Killer Robots” might sound like a sci-fi thriller, but the threat they pose to international security is very real. A global coalition, which includes Common Law’s Professor Ian Kerr, is calling on Canada and other governments to ban autonomous weapons that would select targets and use force withou...
On October 9, 2015, co-leaders of The eQuality Project, Professors Jane Bailey (uOttawa Faculty of Law) and Valerie Steeves (uOttawa Dept of Criminology), met with a delegation of seven officials from South Korea to discuss the issues of online hate propaganda and cyberbullying.
On October 9, 2015, co-leaders of The eQuality Project, Professors Jane Bailey (uOttawa Faculty of Law) and Valerie Steeves (uOttawa Dept of Criminology), met with a delegation of seven officials from South Korea to discuss the issues of online hate propaganda and cyberbullying.
Professor Jennifer Chandler discusses the “double-edged sword” of neuroscientific evidence in criminal law in a recent article entitled “The Brain, Guilt and Public Safety”, featured in The Lawyers Weekly.
Professor Jennifer Chandler discusses the “double-edged sword” of neuroscientific evidence in criminal law in a recent article entitled “The Brain, Guilt and Public Safety”, featured in The Lawyers Weekly.