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The Centre for Law, Technology and Society celebrates another successful year at the 17th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot. Almut MacDonald, Jessica Pugliese, and Spencer Malthouse, coached by Professor Jeremy de Beer, brought home a second-place finish. The achievements of this year’s Oxford team affirm a long-standing tradition of international IP mooting success for th...

The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that the Young Researcher of the Year Award has been granted to Beverly Baker, Director of Language Assessment and Associate Professor at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), and to Anne Broadbent, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and University Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing.

This year, the University of Ottawa will celebrate International Francophonie Day with the launch of a new research chairs program dedicated to the study of the Francophonie around the world.

Michael Geist launches a new podcast that will examine international developments on digital policy and Canada’s role in the global digital policy landscape.

As a child, Heather Ochalski spent a lot of time out on the land with her mother near her hometown of Baker Lake, Nunavut. She learned how to observe and monitor weather and animal patterns, how to get from one place to another in various climatic conditions and how to hunt animals while respecting them.

University of Ottawa students had another stellar year at the Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot championship. A runner-up finish for uOttawa’s Fox mooters in the 2019 finals adds another accolade for the school. That makes six straight semi-finals, four finals appearances, and three Fox Cups in the past six years.

The Canadian Association of Legal Ethics (CALE) has recently appointed Associate Professor Amy Salyzyn as President in a unanimous decision following the resignation of Alice Woolley on her appointment to the bench.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, has received an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a project entitled “Secrets and Whistleblowers in a Digital World”, which will explore the tensions between protecting both confidential information, and whistleblowers who act in the public interest.

As a science writer, my work is grounded in not just facts, but the idea of truth. I used to believe wholly in something called the truth. Now, I'm struggling to understand what this means, and what believing in truth says about a person.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is pleased to announce that Professor Elizabeth Dubois has been named to the Board of Directors of CIVIX.