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The fifth edition of the Michel Bastarache Moot Court Competition took place March 17 to 19. The event, held annually at uOttawa, allows students from various Canadian law schools to develop superior mooting skills in French while expanding their knowledge of language rights.

The Ottawa Law Review is now accepting English- and French-language submissions for publication in its next issue. The submission deadline is May 12, 2023.

The Center for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau has contributed to Vulnerable Connections, a report released by the Council of Canadian Academies examining the impact of information and communications technologies on society, the investigative challenges, and policy opportunities to mitigate online harms and crimes.

From her nuanced work on equality rights to her ground-breaking writing on reference opinions, Professor Carissima Mathen has consistently provided crucial insights into the Constitution of Canada and the rule of law. Her contributions to law and letters are now being celebrated by the Ontario government.

New technologies that have the ability to record brain activity are bringing with them some serious implications for the world of law. Imagine, for example, being able to tell if a driver in a car accident had been paying attention or not by checking recordings of their brain data.

University of Ottawa law students Julia Kafato, Ana Nizharadze, and Jessica Rollins have won the prestigious Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot. During seven rounds of competition amidst the historic buildings of the University of Oxford, the team argued all sides of mock litigation involving copyright and pastiche in the context of movies.

uOttawa took home Best Team and Top Oral Advocate at the Tort Law Moot Competition, held virtually on March 3-4, 2023.

With the world celebrating International Women’s Day early in March, the United Nations convened its annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment to address the specific need to strengthen women and girls’ inclusion in innovation and technology.

Congratulations to two Common Law students who took first place at the Canadian National Negotiation Competition (the “CNNC”) on February 24-25, 2023, at McGill University, Faculty of Law.

Here at Fauteux, a lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom! We are known nationally for our mooting programs.  It is in our DNA!