Activities:
Institute members Steve Coughlan and Teresa Scassa, along with Hugh Kindred and Robert Currie are working on a report on the extraterritorial application of laws for the Law Commission of Canada. The Report, which was completed June 23, 2006 is titled Global Reach, Local Grasp: Constructing Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Age of Globalization.
In the Fall of 2006 Professor Margaret Ann Wilkinson of the University of Western Ontario Law School will be a Distinguished Visitor of the Law and Technology Institute. Professor Wilkinson will be teaching Intellectual Property Law.
Teresa Scassa will be giving a presentation on the privacy implications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology at the 10th annual IT.CAN conference in Toronto on October 27, 2006. The presentation will build on the study on RFIDs conducted by Scassa and her co-authors Michael Deturbide, Anne Uteck and Theodore Chiasson. The study, titled: An Analysis of Legal and Technological Privacy Implications of Radio Frequency Identification Technologies was funded through the Contributions Program of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Institute Members Teresa Scassa, Chidi Oguamanam and Steve Coughlan are co-authors of the bi-weekly IT.CAN newsletter. For more information about the newsletter, visit the IT.Can website.
Publications:
Recent publications by members of the Law and Technology Institute include:
Steve Coughlan, Robert J. Currie, Hugh M. Kindred and Teresa Scassa, Global Reach, Local Grasp: Constructing Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Age of Globalization, 2006. Prepared for the Law Commission of Canada.
Gerry Ferguson and Steve Coughlan, Annual Review of Criminal Law 2004 (Toronto: Carswell, 2005)
Steve Coughlan, "A Brave New World of Criminal Justice: Neil Gerlach's Genetic Imaginary" (2005), 45 Alta. L. Rev. 1141.
Steve Coughlan, "Conflicting Stories and Reasonable Doubt: Variations on W.(D)'s Theme" (2005), 24 C.R. (6th) 241.
Michael Deturbide, Pre-Implementation Report on the Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (English), [Rapport préalable à la mise en oeuvre de la Convention des Nations Unies sur l’utilisation de communications électroniques dans les contrats internationaux (French)], Uniform Law Conference of Canada, Quebec City, August 2008.
Michael Deturbide, Consumer Protection Online (Toronto: Butterworths, 2006).
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.
Teresa Scassa, Theo Chaisson, Michael Deturbide, and Anne Uteck, "An Analysis of Legal and Technological Privacy Implications of Radio frequency Identification Technologies", Report to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Michael Deturbide, "Canadian laws on e-contracting still leave many questions unanswered", The Lawyers' Weekly, January 27, 2006.
Chidi Oguamanam, "International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine", University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Teresa Scassa, “Distinguishing Functional Literary Works from Compilations: Issues in Originality and Infringement Analysis”, (2006) 19 Intellectual Property Journal 253.
Teresa Scassa, “Copyright in Collective Works”, (2005) 84 Canadian Bar Review 347-364.