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As the law stands today, an international treaty can’t give the federal government power to change the constitutional division of powers.

Canada’s Drone Rules Canada has been an early adopter of flexible regulations for limited commercial drone operations. The Canadian Aviation Regulations require all commercial Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV, or “drone”) operators to obtain special permission from Transport Canada before their respective flights. But, in 2014, Transport Canada carved out an exception to this requirement to allow some...

Marina Pavlović

On October 9, 2015, co-leaders of The eQuality Project, Professors Jane Bailey (uOttawa Faculty of Law) and Valerie Steeves (uOttawa Dept of Criminology), met with a delegation of seven officials from South Korea to discuss the issues of online hate propaganda and cyberbullying.

Professor Jennifer Chandler discusses the “double-edged sword” of neuroscientific evidence in criminal law in a recent article entitled “The Brain, Guilt and Public Safety”, featured in The Lawyers Weekly.

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Karen Eltis

Professor Teresa Scassa has published a new book entitled Canadian Trademark Law, 2nd Edition.

Professor Teresa Scassa is a featured expert in the recent documentary “The Oasis Affair” by Heidi Lasi. This short film explores the dispute between Les Industries Lassonde, Inc. (a major Quebec company that produces, among other things, OASIS brand juices) and Olivia’s Oasis, a small Quebec business producing soaps and skin care products.