About - Michael Geist
WEBDr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society.He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York ...
Michael Geist
WEBJul 15, 2024 — Parliament resumes after a summer break today. While digital policies receded into the background over the past few months, the political intrigue of by-elections and a minority government without an NDP deal will be accompanied by questions about what happens to Bill C-63, Canada’s online harms bill, Bill C-27, the privacy and AI reform bill, Bill S-210, the age verification bill, and a ...
WEBGovernment Testimony, Delegations and Task Forces. International Trade Committee on E-commerce, October 2017. Industry, Science and Technology Committee on Anti-Spam Law, October 2017. Senate Open Caucus on NAFTA, October 2017. International Trade Committee on NAFTA, September 2017.
The Canadian Government's Groundhog Day Copyright …
WEBDec 9, 2021 — Groundhog_Day_2005_IMG_0948_(24543835) by Aaron Silvers from Chicago, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to Michael Geist’s Home on the Web.
WEBWelcome to Michael Geist’s Home on the Web. I am a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. I publish a wide range of articles, newsletters, and reports and I am involved in a several interesting Internet policy projects. My weekly column on law and technology appears in ...
Global Technology Law and Policy - Michael Geist
WEBMay 15, 2024 — Global Technology Law and Policy: Spring 2024 (CML3351) Global Technology Law and Policy is an intensive seminar that is a collective initiative of the University of Ottawa, the University of Haifa, and Bocconi University in Milan with a selection of students from each university. This year’s course will take place in person in Ottawa and Haifa.
Blocking is Back: Why Internet Blocking is the Next Big Canadian …
WEBMar 17, 2021 — The first round of comments closed on Monday. The CRTC has raised the possibility of several different types of blocking, including domain-based blocking, Internet Protocol (IP)-based blocking, and protocol-based blocking. It states that its preliminary view is that “network-level blocking is a viable strategy to prevent the harm botnets ...
Why the Criminal Code and Human Rights Act Provisions Should …
WEBFeb 28, 2024 — Having a spent virtually the entire day yesterday talking with media and colleagues about Bill C-63, one thing has become increasingly clear: the Criminal Code and Human Rights Act provisions found in the Online Harms Act should be removed. In my initial post on the bill, I identified the provisions as one of three red flags, warning that they “feature penalties that go as high as life in ...
Books Archives - Michael Geist
WEBMay 29, 2015 — This is the first of a new collection from the UOP on law, technology and society (I am pleased to serve as the collection editor) that will be part of the UOP’s open access collection. This book features fourteen articles on copyright written by independent scholars from coast to coast. The diversity of contributors provides a rich view the ...
Michael Geist - Page 9 of 1732
WEBThe Jewish holiday of Purim over the weekend sparked the usually array of political tweets featuring some odd interpretations of the meaning of the holiday and expressing varying degrees of support for the Jewish community. But coming off one of the worst weeks in memory – cancelled Jewish events due to security concerns, antisemitism in the mainstream media, deeply troubling comments on the ...