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The multimedia platform will provide unfettered access into Canada’s top court through video, gaming technology and educational resources

On October 2–3, the University of Ottawa's Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics hosted the conference "Reframing Mental Health Law", gathering ninety leading scholars, practitioners, and advocates to explore the many challenges facing mental health law and policy.

As technology transforms how knowledge is produced, shared, and monetized, Indigenous Peoples around the world face growing risks of being sidelined in the governance of their own intellectual and cultural heritage.

To every lawyer who feels they must do it all themselves, who take on too much and ends up burnt out: It’s okay to ask for help.

Professor Suzanne Bouclin has published the second edition of her book Une introduction à la théorie et à la pratique de la résolution des différends (Éditions JFD, 2025).

 When Chelsea Sauve, JD ’17, first walked the halls of Fauteux, she envisioned a future in international law. After law school however, she found herself drawn in a different direction—one that still centered on advocacy and service, but in a new context.

How can the world accelerate clean technology innovation while ensuring equitable access to its benefits? How can intellectual property systems be transformed to support – not hinder – the urgent fight against climate change?

Every country bans it and nearly every country has laws against it. More than 196 countries have signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and yet the commercial sexual exploitation of children is thriving, supercharged by technology and new AI tools that didn’t even exist five years ago.

Thanks to the generous support of local labour and employment law firm Emond Harnden, first-year students in the French Common Law Program had the opportunity to take part in an experiential learning activity as part of their Legal Skills and Competencies course.

From artificial intelligence to quantum technologies, Professor Florian Martin-Bariteau is helping Canada and the world navigate the law and ethics of innovation.