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The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law supports and facilitates the study of law and its relationship to technology, by sponsoring and cultivating research, teaching and knowledge exchange on law, legal theory, and policy related to technology, broadly understood. As a scholarly research centre, the Centre is open to interdisciplinary approaches, including law’s dialogue with the humanities. The Centre faculty approach foundational, theoretical and topical issues concerning law and technology through the rubrics of law, philosophy, political science, economics and cultural studies, with particular expertise in intellectual property, cyberlaw, privacy, and biotechnology law.
Events Calendar
Friday, June 06, 2008
Conference on Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy
Microsoft Law and the Information Society Project.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Knowledge, Culture and Human Rights Colloquium
Institute for the Study of Law, Technology and Culture. Invitational event.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Legal Conceptions of Reputation Colloquium
Institute for the Study of Law, Technology and Culture. Invitational event.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law: "The True Colors of Trademark Law: Aesthetic Depletion and the Distortion of Social Meaning"
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy Speaker: Darin Barney
Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship and Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University: "Innovation Nation: Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Technology"
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
2008 Grafstein Lecture in Communications: Jessica Litman
Jessica Litman, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School: "Rethinking Copyright"
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: Mark Rose
Mark Rose, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara: "The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright"
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: Wendy Gordon
Wendy Gordon, Professor of Law, Boston University, School of Law: "Deserving Speech: Who We Are and What We Do"
Friday, November 23, 2007
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: Elizabeth F. Judge
Elizabeth F. Judge, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa: "Presumed Intentions: Implied Licence for Public Body Uses of Copyrighted Works"
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: Yoav Mazeh
Yoav Mazeh, Professor, Ono Academic College, Israel: "Fixation in Copyright: Should Works of Copyright be Fixed in Tangible Form?"
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Forthcoming Faculty Publications  

Drassinower, Abraham. "The Art of Selling Chocolate: Remarks on Copyright's Domain" (2007) 4 University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal (forthcoming). (download article)

Drassinower. Abraham. “Canadian Originality: Notes on a Judgment in Search of an Author” in Ysolde Gendreau, ed., A New Intellectual Property Paradigm: the Canadian Experience, (Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming 2008).

Katz, Ariel. Copyright Collectives: Good Solution, But For Which Problem? Forthcoming in Working Within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property (Rochelle Dreyfuss, Harry First and Diane Zimmerman, eds.), (Oxford University Press, 2009)).

Lemmens, Trudo. “The Plasticized Pregnant Woman and Legal Rights over Reproductive 'Material'" in Timothy Caulfield & Shawn Caulfield, Imagining Science (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press) [forthcoming in 2008].

Lemmens, Trudo."Conflict of Interest in Medical Research: Historical Developments" in Ezekiel E. Emanuel et al., eds., The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics (Oxford University Press) [forthcoming in 2008].

Slane, Andrea. ““Tales, Techs and Territories: Private International Law, Globalization and the Legal Construction of Borderlessness on the Internet”, Law and Contemporary Problems, forthcoming 2008.

Recent Faculty Publications 2007-2008
Recent News
Monday, June 23, 2008
CILP receives funding from Office of the Privacy Commission Contributions program for a project entitled “Privacy and Access to Genetic Research Data”
Thursday, May 01, 2008
CILP receives funding from Public Safety Canada for research project to be conducted by Executive Director Andrea Slane entitled “Child Sexual Exploitation, Technology and Crime Prevention Education: Keeping Pace with the Risks?”
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