David Beauchemin, Nicolas Garneau, Ève Gaumond, Pierre-Luc Deziel, Richard Khoury, and Luc Lamontagne - professors at the Université de Laval - explore in this publication the ethical issues of access to judicial information. ABSTRACT Plumitifs (dockets) were initially a tool for law clerks. Nowadays, they are used as summaries presenting all the steps of a […] Read more
Frank Pascale - professor at the University of Maryland and ACT researcher - offers in this book a reflection on human expertise and the challenge of automated work in the age of artificial intelligence. Foreword (excerpt) Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you […] Read more
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This content is not available in the selected language. À la suite de la présentation par le ministre de l’Innovation, des Sciences et de l’Industrie de la réforme sur la protection de la vie privée au Canada, la Chaire L.R. Wilson en collaboration avec d’autres institutions universitaires telles l’OBVIA et le Centre de recherche en […] Read more
Call for papers for the Fourteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2020 (IsAI-2020) to be held from the 15th to 17th of November, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Due to COVID-19 this event may be remotely. Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of […] Read more
Nicolas Vermeys - Assistant Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory - Maria-Fernanda Acevedo Lanas - Scientific Coordinator at the Cyberjustice Laboratory - explore in this publication the emergence and evolution of virtual courts in Canada by drawing on the work done by the Cyberjustice Laboratory and, in particular, the success of the Platform to Aid in […] Read more
Benoit Dupont - ACT researcher - focus in this article published in The Conversation on the use of personal data to fight against the COVID-19 pandemia. Available in french only. Afin de retrouver une liberté de mouvement temporairement suspendue et dans le but de protéger les populations contre une deuxième vague d’infection, on voit se mettre […] Read more
Karine Gentelet - ACT researcher - and France Isabelle Langlois - Director General at Amnesty international Canada francophone - discuss in this article the risks and stakes of using new technologies in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Article available only in french. Au nom de la lutte contre la pandémie, de nombreux États ont […] Read more
The Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec has published a discussion paper on the various issues raised by the use of certain technologies, such as the use of geolocation data by government authorities to counter the health crisis caused by COVID-19. If deployed, these technological tools could violate fundamental human rights. The Commission therefore submitted […] Read more
David Tait and Meredith Rossner - ACT researchers - focus in this article published in The conversation - an online academic journal - on the challenges faced by virtual courts in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a sense, the courts have been preparing for an outbreak like this for some time. Witnesses […] Read more
Amy Salyzyn - ACT researcher - writes in this article published on the website Slaw - a Canadian legal blog - about how the pandemic has disrupted the functioning of the judicial system. She paints the picture of how a virtual courts should be, emphasizing the need to provide more transparency, including more access to […] Read more
