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- Rob Currie, "Law expert: Don't expect all the answers in espionage case", Chronicle Herald
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Web Spies: commentary by Professor Currie recently appeared in a Macleans magazine story about the new Wikileaks “Spy Files” initiative, which deals with the regulation of companies who develop (and sell) online surveillance technology.
Professor Currie recently did a Q&A with CBC on the jurisdictional and logistical problems in internet defamation cases. You can read it here.Within a week, and showing the power of internet media presence, Professor Currie was doing a live interview on the same topic—but via Skype and on the Spanish-language international news channel NTN24!
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Michael Deturbide served as an expert witness to the Standing Committee of the House of Commons studying the issue of e-commerce: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2011/10/19/canada-praised-for-solid-online-infrastructure/
- LATI Associate member David Fraser was recently named one of Canada’s top 24 legal social media influencers. See the full story here.
- New Director: Professor Rob Currie (Robert Currie), who has been a member of the Institute since 007, took over as Director on July 1. See the new "Director's Greeting" here Director's Greeting
- LATI Faculty member, Professor Graham Reynolds, is currently on leave while he pursues doctoral studies at Oxford. Professor Reynolds was awarded a 2011 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship to support his doctoral project, which is entitled "A 'Charter Rights First' Approach to the Intersection of Freedom of Expression and Copyright." More information can be found here. Congratulations Graham!