Canadian Hub on Technology, Security, & Law

at the University of Calgary

Articles and Book Chapters

Online Abuse of Elected Officials: Tackling the Slow Violence that Undermines Democracy

Emily Laidlaw, Valerie Lennox, and Sanjampreet Singh

Online Harms Legislation and Lawful but Awful Expression

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Emily Laidlaw and Valerie Lennox

The Uncertain Future of Patented Medicines

The Mis/Dis-information Problem is Hard to Solve

Gregory Hagen, Reyhaneh Safavi-Naini, and Moti Yung

The Diligent Online Platform

The Challenge Designing Intermediary Liability Laws

Smarter Contracts: Smart Contracts & AI

Technology Mindfulness and the Future of the Tort of Privacy

The Elusive Motive Requirement in Canada’s Terrorism Offences: Defining and Distinguishing Ideology, Religion, and Politics

Michael Nesbitt, Leah West, and Amarnath Amarasingam

Invoking the Emergencies Act in Response to the Truckers’ 'Freedom Convoy 2022': What the Act Requires, How the Government Justified the Invocation, and whether It Was Lawful

Leah West, Michael Nesbitt, and Jake Norris

Violent crime, hate speech or terrorism? How Canada views and prosecutes far-right extremism (2001–2019)

Michael Nesbitt

Sentencing the Toronto 18: Lessons from Then, Lessons for Now

Michael Nesbitt

Privacy and Cybersecurity in Digital Trade: The Challenge of Cross Border Data Flows

AI and Patents and Trade Secrets

An Empirical and Qualitative Study of Expert Opinion Evidence in Canadian Terrorism Cases: November 2001 to December 2019

Michael Nesbitt, and Ian M. Wylie

Creating a Revenge Porn Tort for Canada

Emily Laidlaw and Hilary Young

Reviewing Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters 2017: What’s new, what’s out, and what’s different from Bill C-51, A National Security Act 2015?

Michael Nesbitt

Mapping Current and Emerging Models of Intermediary Liability

Bill C-59 and CSIS’s “New” Powers to Disrupt Terrorist Threats: Holding the Charter-Limiting Regime to (Constitutional) AccountAuthors

Michael Nesbitt

Forum Introduction: Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters: What it Does and Why it Matters

Michael Nesbitt and Leah West

An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases

Michael Nesbitt, Robert Oxoby, and Meagan Potier

An Empirical Study of Terrorism Prosecutions in Canada: Elucidating the Elements of the Offences

Michael Nesbitt and Dana Hagg

Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada Since 2001: Shifting away from the Fundamental Principle and towards Cognitive Biases

Michael Nesbitt, Robert Oxoby, and Meagan Potier

An Empirical Study of Terrorism Charges and Terrorism Trials in Canada between September 2001 and September 2018

Michael Nesbitt

Notice-and-Notice-Plus: A Canadian Perspective Beyond the Liability and Immunity Divide

Internet Intermediary Liability in Defamation

Emily Laidlaw and Hilary Young

Re-Imagining Resolution of Online Defamation Disputes

What Is a Joke? Mapping the Path of a Speech Complaint on Social Networks

Myth or Promise? The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Online Service Providers for Human Rights

Online Shaming and the Right to Privacy

Are We Asking Too Much from Defamation Law? Reputation Systems, ADR, Industry Regulation and Other Extra-Judicial Possibilities for Protecting Reputation in the Internet Age: Proposal for Reform

Re-Purposing UN Commissions of Inquiry

Michael Nesbitt

Due Process in UN Commissions of Inquiry: A Legal Analysis of the Procedures of Goldstone's Gaza Inquiry

Michael Nesbitt

Lessons from the Sam Hinga Norman Decision of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: How trials and truth commissions can co-exist

Michael Nesbitt

Internet Intermediary Liability in Defamation: Proposals for Statutory Reform

Emily Laidlaw and Hilary Young

CSIS's New Disruptive Powers, Grey Holes, & the Rule of Law in Canada

Michael Nesbitt

Canada's 'Unilateral' Sanctions Regime under Review: Extraterritoriality, Human Rights, Due Process, and Enforcement in Canada's Special Economic Measures Ac

Michael Nesbitt

The Regulation of Synthetic Nucleic Acids under the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act

“Interpreting ‘Reproduction’ in SODRAC

Merges on Just IP: Are IP Rights Basic?

Technological Neutrality in Canadian Copyright Law

“Modernizing” ISP Copyright Liability

Synthetic biology confronts publics and policy makers: challenges for communication, regulation and commercialization

Tania Bubela, Gregory Hagen, and Edna Einsiedel

A framework for identifying Internet information gatekeepers

The Responsibilities of Free Speech Regulators: An Analysis of the Internet Watch Foundation

Private Power, Public Interest: An Examination of Search Engine Accountability

Potency, Patenting and Preformation: The Patentability of Totipotent Cells in Canada

Layered Rights: Robertson v. Thomson

The Patriation of .ca

Gregory Hagen and Kim G. von Arx