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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, March 27, 2009
Law, Photography and Other Recording Devices Colloquium
Half day colloquium sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Law, Technology and Culture.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Annual Grafstein Lecture in Communications: Neil Netanel
Neil Netanel, Professor of Law, University of California at Los Angeles: "Copyright's Paradox".
Friday, March 13, 2009
Workshop on Privacy and Access to Genetic Research Data
Invitational full day workshop. Sponsored by the Contributions Program of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Innovation Law & Theory Workshop: Mark McKenna
RESCHEDULED: Mark McKenna, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Law School: "Testing Modern Trademark Law’s Theory of Harm". Sponsored by the Microsoft Information Society Project.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Panel on the Future of Online Hate Speech Regulation in Canada
Panel on proposed changes to Canada's regime controlling hate speech on the Internet. Co-sponsored by the Constitutional Roundtable.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Innovation Law & Theory Workshop: Barton Beebe
Barton Beebe, Associate Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York. Sponsored by the Microsoft Information Society Project.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Copyright Symposium
Full day symposium featuring Canadian scholars on copyright. Sponsored by the Microsoft Information Society Project.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: David Wall
David Wall, Professor of Criminal Justice and Information Technology, University of Leeds School of Law. "Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear 2.0: Constructing Cybercrime in the Public Imagination". Institute for the Study of Law, Technology and Culture, Co-sponsored by the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Identity Rights Colloquium
Institute for the Study of Law, Technology and Culture. Co-sponsored by the Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative, University of Toronto.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Innovation Law and Theory Workshop: David E. Winickoff
David E. Winickoff, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society, University of California, Berkeley: "Justice and the Management of Genomic Biobanks: A Procedural Rejoinder to Benefit-Sharing".
Need to Know

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”, 17 Law and Contemporary Problems 3: 129-151, Summer 2008. The article can be downloaded at http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/index.

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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