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The Law and Ethics of Reading the Mind from Brain Data
Join us for a talk about the ethical and legal issues of brain-computer interfaces and the use of brain data.The University of Ottawa Centre for Law, …

Poverty, Agency, and Resistance in the Future of International Law: An African Perspective in a Time of Global Ferment
Join us for the Open AIR Annual Lecture and a conversation about the future of international law for African peoples.Open AIR and the University of Ot…

Whose Security Are We Talking About Anyway?
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kristen Thomasen and Prof. Jane Bailey examining issues of surveillance and security in the smart homes context. …

Authoritarian Smart Cities and Total Urban Surveillance
Join us for a conversation on surveillance and smart cities to launch the CCS/Lab and welcome our new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellow. T…

(De)Coding the Court: Legal Data Insights into Canada’s Supreme Court
Join us for the launch of (De)Coding the Court: Legal Data Insights into Canada’s Supreme Court edited by Justice Carissima Mathen, Professor Wolfgang…

The Walls Have Eyes
Join us for a conversation with Petra Molnar around her new book exposing experimental AI surveillance technology sharpening of borders around the glo…

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Join us for a conversation with Prof. Anu Bradford on the regulatory approaches governing the digital economy and how governments and technology compa…

Governing Online Harms
Join us for a conversation on Bill C-63 and the Online Harms Bill with leading legal experts. The University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and …

unLine: Exploring the transgressive potential of art in a digitally repressive environment
Join us on an exploration of the transgressive potential of art in a digitally repressive environment with Prof. Chloe S. Georas as we inaugurate her …

AI Hype and the Justice Gap
Join us for a conversation with Prof. Milan Markovic on the deployment of AI in the legal profession and how it affects access to justice.

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Regional Integration, and Trade Policy
Join us for conversation on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA), regional integration and trade policy with Dr. Melaku Desta from the Uni…

The Political Uses of AI in Canada
Join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Dubois, to discuss her new report, The Political Uses of AI in Canada, with Laura Tribe.…

Shaping AI for Just Futures
Join us for a global and interdisciplinary conversation on the ethical, legal and societal implications of artificial intelligence with leading law, p…

Shaping the Politics of AI: Past, Present, Future
Join us for the inaugural Ian R. Kerr Memorial Lecture featuring Prof. Kate Crawford reflecting on the politics of AI and the scholarship of Dr. Kerr.…

AI and the Legal Profession
Join us for a conversation with leading Canadian experts on the latest AI developments for the legal profession.

Shaping Policy for the Next Frontier Technology
Join us to meet the professors, projects and student opportunities of Canada’s leading research group in technology law, ethics and policy!

Breaking the Silence
Join us for a conversation with Valerie Steeves and Jane Bailey about using arts-based and deliberative dialogue methods to engage young people in the…

Book Launch Can't compute
Join us for the book launch of Can’t Compute, a collection of essays aiming at bridging this gap in Canadian studies to highlight technology issues th…