Law & Technology at uOttawa
Welcome to the webpage of the Law & Technology Option (LLB) and Law & Technology Concentration (LLM and PhD).
The Law & Technology Program at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law was founded in 1998 and has become the leading program of its kind in Canada. Providing specialized courses, practical experience and the opportunity to conduct innovative research, the program covers both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
From its location in Canada's technology capital, the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Program acts as a central source of legal information and expertise for policy-making and judicial determination in Canada and has been instrumental in producing technology law practitioners that now occupy all facets of the technology law field.
The Faculty of Law offers a graduate program for LLM students with a Concentration in Law & Technology. In addition, we supervise PhD students who focus on topics in the areas of Law & Technology. For more information, please visit the website for Graduate Studies in Law.
The Law & Technology Option is available to all LLB students currently registered at the Faculty of Law and provides recognition for rigorous training in the technology law field.
For more information about the Law & Technology faculty members, research assistant opportunities, and Law & Technology speakers, conferences and other activities at the University of Ottawa, please visit the website of the Centre for Law, Technology & Society, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, and the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal.
What is Law & Technology?
At the University of Ottawa, we define the field of Law & Technology more broadly than other universities. Our faculty research and classes investigate the traditional areas of intellectual property and electronic commerce, but we include other areas as well such as online identity, international development, and social media.
Fields of study in Law & Technology:
Courses that qualify for the Law & Technology Option include those with a theoretical or doctrinal focus on the legal and societal challenges presented by the emergence of new technologies. Sample fields of study include:
- Computer, internet and e-commerce law
- Privacy
- Access to information
- Intellectual property (copyright, trademarks, patents, international IP)
- Access to knowledge
- Open access publishing
- Technology and ethics
- Communications, entertainment, and social media
- Information technology transactions
- Natural sciences
- Traditional knowledge
- Electronic evidence
- Cybercrime
- Security
- E-government
- Science, technology and society
- Legal history of technology
Co-ordinator
The Law & Technology Option and the Law & Technology Concentration are jointly coordinated by the Centre for Law, Technology & Society and the Faculty of Law. For information about either program or the activities of the Centre for Law, Technology & Society, please contact techlaw@uottawa.ca.