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FACULTY

 

Constance Backhouse

 

Professor Backhouse currently holds the position of "Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair" at the University of Ottawa. Her areas of expertise are: Criminal Law, Human Rights, History of Law and Women's Rights. She earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Manitoba in 1972 and a degree of LL.B. at Osgoode Hall School of Law. In addition, she earned her LL.M.at the Harvard Law School in 1979 and the degree of Honoris Causa, Law Society of Upper Canada in 2002. She has published extensively in her areas of expertise. One of her books: "Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States" was presented as the most outstanding book in the field of Human Rights in the United States. She also excelled as a co-author of two books on the subject of sexual harassment: "Sexual Harrassment on the Job" and "Oppression: Sexual Harrassment of Working Women".

 

Chloé S. Georas

 

Chloé S. Georas is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the University of Puerto Rico Law School.  In her academic endeavors, Professor Georas combines her formation in Law (J.D. from New York University School of Law and LL.M. from University of Ottawa) and Cultural Studies/ Art History (M.A. up to A.B.D. from State University of New York, Binghamton) to examine the complex intersections of technology with gender, colonial/racial histories, cultural memory and art.  As of 2014, she has embarked on the study of Family Law.

 

Ian Kerr

 

 

Prior to his appointment to the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2000, Ian Kerr held a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Information & Media Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He currently teaches a graduate seminar in the LLM concentration in law and technology (Technoprudence: Legal Theory in an Information Age), as well as a unique seminar offered each year during the month of January in Puerto Rico that brings students from very different legal traditions together to exchange culture, values, and ideas and to unite in the study of technology law issues of global importance (TechnoRico). Professor Kerr also teaches in the areas of moral philosophy and applied ethics, internet and ecommerce law, contract law and legal theory.

 

In 2001, Professor Kerr was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology. He has published writings in academic books and journals on ethical and legal aspects of digital copyright, automated electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, cybercrime, nanotechnology, internet regulation, ISP and intermediary liability, online defamation, pre-natal injuries and unwanted pregnancies.

He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Academic Coordinating Committee of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, the Centre for Ethics and Values, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Uniform Law Commission of Canada’s Special Working Group on Electronic Commerce. Also, he is an associate editor of Kluwer’s Electronic Commerce Research Journal, a guest editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press), and sits as a member on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and on the Advisory Board of Butterworths’ Canadian Internet and E-Commerce Law Newsletter. He is also co-author of Managing the Law (Prentice Hall), a business law text used by thousands of students each year at universities across Canada.

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