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ROBERT CURRIE B.A. (Hons.) (St. F.X.), M.A. (Carleton, LL.B. (Dal.), LL.M. (Edinburgh) Email: robert.currie@dal.ca Rob Currie took over as Director of the Law and Technology Institute as of 1 July 2011. He has been a member of the Dalhousie Law Faculty since 2002, and was made a faculty associate of the Law & Technology Institute in 2007. He teaches Law & Technology, Evidence and International Criminal Law, and also coaches competitive mooting. Professor Currie has published articles and co-authored books in a wide variety of fields and his work has been cited by Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. His recent work in the law and technology field includes: “New First Principles? Assessing the Internet’s Challenges to Jurisdiction” (2011) 42 Georgetown J. Int’l L. 1017 (with T. Scassa); and a chapter on Canada in the international text Electronic Evidence, 2nd edition (London: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010) (with S. Coughlan). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can), and of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Law & Technology, to which he regularly contributes. He is also a co-author of the bi-weekly IT.Can newsletter. Professor Currie is a specialist in the area of international and transnational criminal law and maintains a blog that tracks developments in the field. His recent text on this subject was shortlisted for the Walter Owen Book Prize for outstanding Canadian legal literature, and cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. He maintains an active research interest in cyber-crime, as well as electronic discovery and evidentiary issues. |
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MICHAEL DETURBIDE B.Sc. (Dal), B.J. (Kings), LL.B., LL.M. (Dal.) Email: michael.deturbide@dal.ca Michael Deturbide, Professor of Law, currently serves as the Associate Dean, Academic, Dalhousie Law School. He recently completed a four-year term as the Director of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie and continues to act as Associate Director of the Institute. He is a practicing member of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and is Counsel to the law firm McInnes Cooper, providing expertise in the areas of information technology law, privacy, and business law. Professor Deturbide is co-editor-in-chief and co-founder of the national law review on technology law matters, the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. He also helped establish several innovative programs at Dalhousie University, including the Master of Commerce Program, and the newly launched Privacy and Security Lab. He has lectured at universities and technology law conferences in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Europe, and Australia. Professor Deturbide has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian IT Law Association, the Commonweath Judicial Education Institute, the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association, Neptune Theatre, and the Dalhousie Art Gallery, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law Services Admissions Council. At Dalhousie University Professor Detrubide is a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Academic Appeals Committee. He is Chair of the Studies Committee, and sits on the Admissions Committee and Strategic Planning Committee of the Law School. Teaching areas: Internet Law, Electronic Commerce, Business Associations, Taxation Recent Publications Michael Deturbide, Pre-Implementaion Report on the Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts, Prepared for the Government of Canada, Department of Justice, Public Policy Section Michael Deturbide, Consumer Protection Online (Toronto: Butterworths, 2006). Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada (co-author with Teresa Scassa) (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2004). Consumer Privacy and Radio Frequency Identification Technology (with Teresa Scassa, Theodore Chaisson, and Anne Uteck) (2006) 37 Ottawa Law Review 215. Chapter 10 of Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2006). Michael Deturbide, Book Review, The Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada by F. Sauvageau, D. Schneiderman and D. Taras (2006) 44:2 Alberta Law Review. Michael Deturbide, "Canadian laws on e-contracting still leave many questions unanswered", The Lawyers' Weekly, January 27, 2006. |
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STEPHEN COUGHLAN B.A. (Ott.), M.A. (U. of T.), LL.B. (Dal.), Ph.D. (U. of T.) Email: stephen.coughlan@dal.ca Steve Coughlan has been at Dalhousie Law School in a variety of roles since 1992 (appointed Full Professor 2004; Associate Professor, 2001-2004; Assistant Professor, 1999-2001; Alumni and Placement Officer, 1996-99; Faculty Lawyer, Dalhousie Legal Aid, 1993-96; Assistant Director, Health Law Institute 1992-96). He became a member of the Law and Technology Institute in 2005. Prior to joining the School he was a Consultant with the Law Reform Commission of Canada (1988-1992) and practiced with the Metro Community Law Clinic (1986-88). His primary teaching area is Criminal Law and Procedure, but he has been involved in coaching competitive Moot teams for many years, and has taught Constitutional Law, Health Law, and Medical Ethics (in the Faculty of Medicine). He also co-teaches Introduction to Law, a course offered by the Law School to non-law students, and is one of the Co-ordinators of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Minor in Law and Society. He has received a number of awards for his teaching, including the Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teacher Award (2005), the Dalhousie Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching (2004), the Hannah and Harold Barnett Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year Law (2004), and the Dalhousie Law Students’ Society/Dalhousie Law Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching Law (2000). He is one of the editors of the Criminal Reports and of the National Justice Institute Criminal Law e-Letter. Much of his writing is in the Criminal Law field, including an upcoming book on Criminal Procedure co-authored with Patrick Healy of McGill University, and more than 50 articles, annotations and chapters in various journals and books. He has also written a number of pieces on the legal profession, including a report for the Young Lawyers Conference of the CBA, The Future of the Legal Profession: The Challenge of Change and electronic EPIIgrams for the Canadian Bar Association Website on issues such as collaborative law and unbundling of legal services, among others. He has also published a number of articles in various health law journals, and continues to be involved in inter-disciplinary research on treatment of the elderly. |
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| GRAHAM REYNOLDS
Telephone: (902) 494-1034 Biography: Graham Reynolds was appointed to the faculty of Dalhousie Law School in 2008. His teaching and research interests include property law, intellectual property law and law and technology. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Reynolds attended graduate school at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He also served as the law clerk to the Honourable Chief Justice Lance Finch of the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Professor Reynolds is a member of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie. |
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AssociatesAndrew Cochrane Robert Cowan David Fraser Matthew Herder Christene Hirschfeld Teresa Scassa |
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AdministrationLynda Corkum also Administrative Secretary for |
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