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In March of 2022, the Liberal government announced plans to launch a new dental care program for middle- and low-income Canadians, the result of an agreement with the NDP. While the proposed dental program is set to begin in 2022 and expand through to 2025, very little scholarly work has been done on how the federal government can and should implement such a program. The Centre for Health Law, Po...

Professor Anne Levesque is the 2022 recipient of the University of Ottawa's Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award in the Early Career Researchers category. This honour comes in recognition of the initiatives she has undertaken through the Equality Law Clinic (“the Clinic”), which she founded and has managed at the Common Law Section since July 2019.

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, announced the appointment of 91��ɫ Common Law alumni Andres Garin, LLB ’98, to the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Montreal, on April 20, 2022.

Congratulations to Nadia Effendi, LLB ’03, who was named Litigator of the Year at the Canadian Law Awards.

Given the constant evolution of Canadian society across countless fields, such as health—the COVID-19 pandemic being a prime example—Indigenous law and artificial intelligence, it is more important than ever for the legal community to have up-to-date information on the full scope of Canadian law.

Professor Craig Forcese has been named Vice-Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), an independent agency of the Canadian government that works to ensure that Canada’s national security agencies are complying with the law and that their actions are reasonable and necessary.

On March 17, 2023, Canada will become one of only a few countries in the world to allow medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for individuals with a mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition. A new report from an Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness, recommends policies and procedures for the delivery of MAiD in this context. The Faculty of Law's Profess...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication with Emond Publishing of the 3rd edition of Canadian Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials, a leading casebook co-authored by CLTS Faculty Member Dr. Teresa Scassa.

Professor Jane Bailey and Dr. Teresa Scassa have been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Council of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which will provide Commissioner Patricia Kosseim’s office with independent, expert advice to help ensure a broader range of interests and perspectives are taken into consideration in advancing and implementing the office’s strategic goals.

What is the future of open data? Pamela Robinson, Teresa Scassa and their contributors team up to answer this question in The Future of Open Data, a new edited collection published by University of Ottawa Press.