Dr. Céline Castets-Renard is the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence, a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Céline Castets-Renard also holds the Research Chair AI Law and Governance in a Global Economy at ANITI - Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANR AI Cluster). She is an Honorary Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) (2015-2019) and an affiliate of the Yale Internet Society Project.
Dr. Céline Castets-Renard is as Vice-Chair (Copyright) of the Working Group on transparency and copyright-related rules to lead the development of the European Union AI Office’s first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. She was an expert member of the European Commission's Observatory on the Economics of Online Platforms (2021-2023).
Dr. Castets-Renard's research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) from an international and comparative law perspective - mainly the European Union, Canada and the United States. She is an expert in AI law, personal data law, digital copyright law and platform regulation. She is also more broadly interested in the impact of technologies on human rights, equity and social justice, and studies gender issues in technologies. She has written over a hundred articles and contributions to conference proceedings, 2 monographs, 3 textbooks
and edited or co-edited 4 books.
Before joining the University of Ottawa in 2019, Dr. Castets-Renard was a senior lecturer and then a professor at the Université Toulouse Capitole (2002-2019). She was a visiting senior lecturer at the Université de Nouvelles Calédonie (2010-2011), where she conducted research on the protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and intellectual property. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School (2017-2019), as well as a Visiting Scholar
at the Yale Internet Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School (2018-2019). She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities around the world, including Fordham Law School University, Washington University in Saint Louis, China University of Political Science and Law, Osaka University, University of Rikkyo, Hanoi University, Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal, University TEC Monterrey in Mexico, Université Carlos III de Madrid, Université Laval in Quebec.
She holds a PhD in copyright law from Université Paris Saclay (2001), a DEA from Université de Montpellier (1998) and a master's degree in business law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1996). She is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1994-1998) and “agrégée du secondaire” in law, economics and management (1997).