Teresa Scassa
Canada Research Chair in Information Law
57, Louis-Pasteur st., rm 387
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Teresa.Scassa@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5800 ext3872
(613) 562-5124
B.A. (Conc.), LL.B./B.C.L. (McGill), LL.M. (Mich.), S.J.D. (Mich.) Member, Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society.
Dr. Scassa began her academic career at Dalhousie Law School (1992-2007), where she taught many courses, including Intellectual Property, Law and Technology, Administrative Law, Public Law, Property Law and Professional Responsibility. She also served as Associate Dean of the Law School (2000-2004), and as Associate Director (2001-2005) and Director (2005-2007) of Dalhousie’s Law and Technology Institute. She joined the faculty of law, common law section of the Université d’Ottawa in July 2007, and was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Information Law in the fall of 2007. She currently teaches Introduction à la propriété intellectuelle et industrielle.
Dr. Scassa has published many articles in a range of areas of law, including language rights and public law. More recently, her research has focused on intellectual property law, privacy law and law and technology. She is co-author of the book Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, (CCH Canadian Ltd., 2004). She has recently published articles on Canada's new Olympic and Paralympic Marks Act, on the use of copyright law to restrain parallel importaiton of goods (cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in Euro Excellence v. Kraft Canada), on the public domain in copyright law, and on issues relating to copyright in functional literary works and compilations. She has also recently published co-authored papers, including a paper on the extraterritorial application of laws (cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Hape), and a study on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and privacy. Dr. Scassa's is currently involved in an interdisciplinary research project on legal issues pertaining to geographical information systems (with a focus on privacy and intellectual property issues). She is also one of a team of researchers funded by a SSHRC grant to explore the extraterritorial application of laws. Her current research also includes work on anti-ambush marketing legislation and the emerging IP right of association. Dr. Scassa is a member of the External Advisory Committee to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.