Conference

Sparking Innovation With Students: Examining The Student Role From Invention To Commercialization

Sparking Innovation With Students: Examining The Student Role From Invention To Commercialization Conference Chair Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino  Founder & Director, IP Osgoode Including Keynote Addresses from Sylvain Laporte Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and CEO, Canadian Intellectual Property Office Bill Mantel Assistant Deputy Minister  – Research, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Division Ontario Ministry of Research […]

ICANN See Some Problems: New Domains and Freedom of XXXpression

Turns out the internet isn’t all about porn. Just kidding, it mostly is. But underneath the debate sparked by the .XXX domain question at last week’s international website regulatory conference are a series of fundamental issues about internet freedom of expression, the process for determining what new URLs will be on offer, the tension between […]

Global Health Challenges and the Role of Law

Global Health Challenges and the Role of Law: the 2012 National Health Law Conference: May 4 & 5, 2012; Metropolitan Hotel; Toronto. For the final program and registration, go to: http://nhlc2012.ca/. Legal scholars, lawyers, and human rights advocates are often prone to believe that global health and human rights issues can be best addressed through law […]

Announcement: Global Health Challenges and the Role of Law: the 2012 National Health Law Conference

Global Health Challenges and the Role of Law: the 2012 National Health Law Conference: May 4 & 5, 2012; Metropolitan Hotel; Toronto. For the final program and registration, go to: http://nhlc2012.ca/.

Appropriately Approaching Appropriation: Osgoode Professors On Feminist Alternatives To Postcolonial Intellectual Property Issues

Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Our very own Osgoode professors and feminist scholars, Rosemary Coombe and Carys Craig, presented a thought-provoking keynote entitled, “Copyright and the Moral Arts of Appropriation: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives”, at the Feminism and the Politics of Appropriation Conference hosted by the Women and Gender Studies […]

Premier McGuinty Kicks Off OCE Discovery 11 with a Bang

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 […]

Discovery 11: Showcasing Ontario’s Innovation

Andrea Dias is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) hosted the Discovery 11 conference and tradeshow on May 18-19m 2011. Named Canada’s Best Trade Show in 2010, Discovery hopes to promote innovation in Ontario by facilitating the exchange of ideas and encouraging collaboration between industry, academia, government, entrepreneurs, […]