University of Calgary

Publications -- Gregory Hagen

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • "Synthetic Biology Confronts Publics & Policymakers," Trends in Biotechnology (In Press, 2011)  (with Tania Bubela and Edna Einsiedel)

  •  "ISP Copyright Liability," in Michael Geist (Ed) From Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010)
  • "Is there Copyright Liability for torrent file searches?" Canadian Intellectual Property Review, June, 2010.
  •  "Potency, Patenting and Preformation: The Patentability of Totipotent Cells in Canada," SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2008 December, pp. 515-552.
  •  "Patenting Part Human Chimeras, Transgenics and Stem Cells in the U.S., Canada and Europe," (with Sebastien Gittens), Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 14, Issue 11, 2008 March, 1-66.
  •  "Layered Rights: Robertson v. Thomson," Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 6 Number 1, March 2007, pp. 61-66.
  •  "Canadian Copyright Reform: P2P File Sharing, Making Available and the Three Step Test," University of Ottawa Journal of Law and Technology 3:2, 2006, pp. 447-516 (with Nyall Engfield).
  •  "Personal Inviolability and Public Health Care: Chaoulli v. Quebec," Health Law Review, Volume 14, Number 2 (2005), pp. 34-37.
  •  "Surveillance in the Workplace: What is Reasonable?" Canadian Privacy Law Review, August 2005, pp. 121-125.
  •  "Sovereign Domains & Property Claims" International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 11 (2003) pp. 1-39.
  •  "The Patriation of .CA," Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (with Kim von Arx), Volume 1, No. 3, (2002) pp. 79-92.
  •  "Sovereign Domains: A Declaration of Independence of ccTLDs from Foreign Control," (with Kim von Arx) Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 9, Issue 1. (46 pages).

BOOK CHAPTER

  • "Some Topics in Copyright Law 200," Wowk, George A.  Intellectual Property Update : Edmonton, Alberta, 2006.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  •  "Is Copyright a Human Right?" in Conference Proceedings of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (U.K.), June 28th-July 1st, 2006.
  •  "Some Themes & Trend in the Law of Patents & Industrial Design in Canada," Conference Proceedings of the 12th Annual Canadian-German Lawyers Association, August, 2004.

BOOK REVIEW

  •  Judging in a Democracy, Aharon Barak, Review of Constitutional Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2007 December, 301-311.

REPORTS

  •  "CIRA Revised WHOIS Policy: Review and Analysis," 2005, submitted to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (with Brian Johnson).
  •  "Assembly of First Nations Report on Canada's Dispute Resolution Plan to Compensate for Abuses in Indian Residential Schools," 2004, listed contributor.
  • "Some Aspects of the Implementation of Public ENUM in Canada," 2004, submitted to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority.
  • "Principles for Electronic Authentication," Industry Canada, Electronic Commerce Branch, Authentication Working Group, 2004, contributor.
  • "PKI Assessment Guidelines," American Bar Association, ABA Information Security Committee, Division of Science & Technology, 2001, listed contributor.

BLOGS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

  •  "Are Totipotent Stem Cells Patentable in Canada?," http://www.iposgoode.ca/author/ghagen/, 2009 January, (Featured Blog on IP Osgoode Blog.)
  •  "Investors should be cautious about investing in viatical settlements," http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2009 January
  •  "Torts, Tasers and Causation," http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2008 November
  •  "Use of a corporate name or registered trade name does not prevent liability for passing off," http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2008 November
  • "Proof of Future Economic Losses in Tort Law," http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2008 August
  • "A Note on Treaty Making in Copyright Law,", http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2008 March
  • Bill C-61 Locks Out User Rights,", http://ablawg.ca/author/ghagen/, 2008 June "Network Neutrality & Privacy," On the Identity Trail Blog, September 18th, 2006.
  • "Circumventing Privacy: When Technological Measures Become Spyware," On the Identity Trail Blog, November 6th, 2005.
  • "Commentary: On ADR for Residential School Claims," The Lawyers Weekly, April 1, 2005, Vol. 25, No. 18.

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS

  • "Synthetic Biology: Applications to Biofuels and Bioproducts," Panelist, May 2010, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • "Regulation of Synthetic Biology," Concordia University PhytoMetaSyn Meeting, March 2010
  •  "Security, Law & Ethics," Computer Science Department, University of Calgary, January, 2010.
  •  "Encoding Law into Rights Management Systems," iCIS Security Seminar, iCORE Information Security Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Calgary, October, 2009
  •  "Intellectual Property in the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements," Faculty of Law, Faculty research seminar, March 2009
  • "Ethical & Legal Issues in Synthetic Biology," University of Calgary, 2009 May, 2009, PhytoMetaSyn Project (Synthetic Biosystems for the Production of High Value Plant Metabolites)
  • "Preformation, Potency & Patenting," Faculty Research Seminar, U of C, Calgary, March, 2008.
  • "Intellectual Property & Pluralism," Law & Society, Montreal, May, 2008
  • "Copyright & Human Rights," Law & Society, Berlin, Germany, July, 2007
  • "Preformation, Potency & Patenting," One Earth Biotechnology Conference, Calgary, November, 2007
  • "Patentability of Totipotent Stem Cells in Canada," Canadian IP Academy, London, Ontario, September, 2007 September
  • "Issues in Biopatenting and Animal Cloning," Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre and Canadian Bar Association, November 15, 2006
  • "Topics in Copyright," (jointly presented with Michael Whitt, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais, LLP), Legal Education Society of Alberta, Edmonton, October 16th, 2006 and Calgary, October 23, 2006
  • "Is Copyright a Human Right?" Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland, July 2006; Canadian Society for Practical Ethics, Social Science and Humanities Congress, Toronto, June, 2006; Canadian Association of Law and Society, Social Science and Humanities Congress, Toronto, June, 2006
  • "Privacy & Network Neutrality," Alberta Supernet Conference, Calgary, June, 2006
  • "Patent Infringement over the Internet" University of Calgary, Faculty Research Seminar, March 2005
  • "Kazaa, Leggo and Blackberries: intro to IP, Business Law, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Fall, 2005
  • Guest Lecture on Legal Issues in Technology Start Ups Greg Hagen, Enabling E-business, Haskayne School of Business, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Fall, 2005.
  • "Information Security and Its Limits", Access & Privacy 2005, Edmonton, June, 2005.
  • "Information Security Liability", Distinguished Speaker Series, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Information Security and Cryptography, Calgary, March, 2005,
  • "Information Security Liability", Canadian Bar Association Privacy Subsection Meeting, Calgary, March, 2005
  • "Recent themes and Trends in Canadian Patent and Industrial Design Law. "Intellectual Property in the 21st Century," Conference, Banff, August, 2004
  • "Does the Residential School ADR Process Effect Reconciliation?" Residential Schools Legacy Conference, Calgary, (2004)
  • "Recent CDRP Decisions on Trademarks & Domain Names," Canadian Internet Registration Authority Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 2003. (Joint presentation with Kim von Arx, General Counsel, CIRA)
  • "Patentability of Higher Life Forms," Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Spring, 2003
  • "Electronic Voting with Digital Objects," National Research Council, Frederickton New Brunswick, Spring, 2003
  • "Borders & E-commerce," Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Spring 2003
  • "Sovereign Domains and Property Claims," Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Fall 2002
  • "Risk Management & Authentication Policy," Industry Canada, Authentication Policy Working Group, Spring, 2002
  • "Legal and Political Aspects of the DNS Architecture," Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Spring 2002
  • "Retransmission Policy in Canada," Technopolicy Seminar, University of Ottawa, Spring, 2002

GRANTS

  • Associate Researcher on 7 year SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Grant for the University of Montreal Cyberjustice Laboratory Project. Principal Investigators: Karim Benyekhlef and Fabien Gelinas (2010-1017).
  • Principal Investigator on 1 year URGC Faculty Research Grant, University of Calgary (2004 - 2004).
  • Co-investigator on 4 year Synthetic Biosystems for the Production of High Value Plant Metabolites (2009-2013). Funded by Genome Canada and Genome Alberta. Principal Investigators Peter Facchini, University of Calgary and Vincent Martin, Concordia University
  • University of Calgary Starter Grant, 2004-5
  • University of Calgary Conference Grant
  • Access Copyright Conference Grant