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Led by Ian Kerr, a Faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Rich Sutton and Doina Precup, more than 200 members of the Canadian research community exhort the Prime Minister of Canada to join the international call to ban lethal autonomous weapons that remove meaningful human control in the deployment of lethal force.

Professor Teresa Scassa, member of the Centre, has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy. This Chair will allow her to continue her innovative research advancing knowledge and informing public policy-making on issues of the ownership, control, and transparency of information and data within the evolving context of the e-Society. With the Chair, she will earn $1...

Professor Ian Kerr, member of the Centre, has renewed his Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology, bringing $1.5 million to uOttawa to develop Robotics and AI Law and Policy. His research will focus on the merger of humans and machines and the ethical, legal and social ramifications of this union.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is happy to launch the call for applications for the 2018 Technoships, a unique research program in law and technology for first-year students.

Recently, the Canadian government’s consultation on reform to the Copyright Board of Canada closed with a plan for reform expected to be unveiled in the coming months. Professor Michael Geist, member of the Centre, and the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), based at the Centre, provided their recommendations on the consultations regarding options for ...

On October 18, 2017, Prof Michael Geist, member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, appeared before the Senate Open Caucus to discuss the IP and e-commerce implications of the NAFTA renegotiation.

Faculty of Law, Common Law Professor, Wolfgang Alschner will be part of a group of researchers who will launch a new database of annotated Preferential Trade Agreement texts at The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. Professor Alschner is also a member of the Center for Law, Technology and Society.

On September 27, 2017, Professor Michael Geist, member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, appeared before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI).

On September 27, 2017, Professor Michael Geist, member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, appeared before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI).

Open AIR invites proposals for short-term research projects that address their research questions on African innovation through the lens of gender equality, empowerment of women and girls, and inclusion of marginalized communities. Researchers will conduct their projects while based at one or more of Open AIR’s institutional hubs in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cairo, Lagos, Abuja, and Ottawa...