Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. When Parliament was dissolved on March 25, 2011, over a dozen criminal justice related bills died with it. During their subsequent election campaign, the Conservative party announced plans to bundle the unpassed bills into an omnibus crime bill, and pass it through Parliament within 100 days […]

IP Osgoode: Congratulations are in order!  The Supreme Court of Canada cited three legal texts in this decision, all of which are authored or co-authored by IP Osgoode Advisory Board Members, namely Justice Roger Hughes, Professor David Vaver and Kelly Gill.  Congratulations also to all counsel for their involvement in this important decision. Mr. Kelly […]

Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Former Formula One president, Max Mosley, recently launched a complaint attempting to strengthen privacy protections for public figures. If the legal bid were successful, it would require news organizations to notify individuals who were the subject matter of a publication. The European Court of […]

Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. A Chicago area teen has been arrested and charged with misdemeanour disorderly conduct after reportedly posting a ranking of his female classmates on Facebook.

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina, School of Law) has recently published her research on “Copyright Law and the Commoditization of Sex”. Professor Bartow’s scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory.  […]

Hashim Ghazi is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 18-19, 2011, I had the pleasure of attending the Ontario Centre of Excellence’s (OCE) annual conference, Discovery 11 (you can read about the conference as a whole on Andrea Dias’ blog post here). The conference focused on the importance of innovative and […]