In view of the situation regarding the coronavirus and the measures taken by government and university authorities, the Cyberjustice Laboratory and the LexUM Chair regretfully cancel all future public lectures and activities until further notice. Nevertheless, we intend on postponing most of them, to the extent possible, to a later date. We will keep you […] Read more
Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” is frequently referenced both in the news and in commercial advertisements. It often appears that nearly everything is or soon will be a product of AI. In fact, however, other than natural language processing, true AI is still in its early stages and far less common than advertising would suggest. This […] Read more
Pierre Legros, a former trainee at the Cyberjustice Laboratory, highlights in an article published on the website Village de la justice, the importance of a better access to justice through the development of online dispute resolution platforms. Available in french only « Partant du principe qu’une plateforme d’ODR serait accessible en tout temps et en […] Read more
As part of the "Justice and Algorithms" week, the radio program LexLab made an inventory of AI innovation in Canada and particularly in Quebec. This episode brought together around a table, Pr Karim Benyekhlef - director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory - Pr Gregory Lewkowicz - ACT researcher - as well as Pr Marina Teller to discuss […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Nearly a decade after co-founding Cyberjustice Laboratory, a hub that analyzes the impact of technologies on justice while developing concrete technological tools that are adapted to the reality of justice systems, Karim Benyekhlef and Fabien Gélinas have set their sights on artificial intelligence (AI). Autonomy through […] Read more
French only Consumer mediation in Quebec first developed in the Small Claims Division of the Court of Quebec, where a pilot project of mandatory mediation for consumer contracts was completed in May 2018. In November 2016, the Office de la protection du consommateur du Québec, in collaboration with the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the University of […] Read more
Call for Abstracts Deadline February 1, 2020 Conveners & Editors David Restrepo Amariles Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes HEC Paris, the Law and Society Review, and the Law and Society Association— CRN Law and Development (CRN 52), are issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Symposium Algorithmic Law and Society, and to […] Read more
Press release Assessment of the Consumer Protection Office's online mediation project after 3 years of implementation Quebec City, December 2, 2019 Minister of Justice Sonia LeBel today marked the 3rd anniversary of the "Online Dispute Resolution Platform" (PARLe), an innovative web-based tool that provides courts with an alternative solution to solve consumer problems. Developed […] Read more
The Research Centre in Information, Law and Society (CRIDS) of the Faculty of Law in the University of Namur has just released his monograph "The judge and the algorithm: judges increased or justice diminished? "In this book, Prof. Karim Benykhlef, Jie Zhu and Valentin Callipel, of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, wrote an article on the theme of "Human Responsibility in […] Read more
Professor Karim Benyekhlef, Cyberjustice Laboratory’s Director and the 2019-2020 holder of the Alexandre Koyré Chair of Excellence , is featured in the weekly magazine "Les Petites Affiches" as part of his presence at the "Justice and Algorithms" week. For this occasion he delivered the inaugural lesson titled "A Short History of the Internet: The Regulation […] Read more
