Technology & Intellectual Property Law
The law relating to novel technologies, including their regulation, and the ownership of intellectual property rights in technologies. Our faculty members do research in a variety of areas, including Internet law, media law, technology and the legal profession, copyright law, patent law, information privacy law, international law and policy relating to emerging technology, geoengineering regulation, technology start-up law, blockchain law, cybersecurity law, the regulation of synthetic biology, and biosecurity.
Our Researchers
Gideon Christian
- Artificial Intelligence and Law
- Electronic Discovery Law
- Environmental Impacts of new technology
Ryan Clements
- Corporate & Securities Law
- Banking & Financial Market Regulation
- Financial Technology, Blockchain & Crypto-Assets
- Financial Product Innovation
- Financial Market Systemic Risk & Financial Crises
Greg Hagen
- Intellectual Property Law
- Biotechnology Law
- Information Technology and Internet Law
- Legal Theory and Philosophy
- Information Security Law
Lorian Hardcastle
- Regulation and governance of the health care system
- Hospital and governmental liability and accountability
- Patient safety
- Health system organization and finance
- Comparative health policy
- Self-regulation of health professionals
Anna-Maria Hubert
- Public international law
- Law of the sea
- International environmental law
- International law and policy relating to science and emerging technologies.
Emily Laidlaw
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Media Law
- Human Rights Law
- Corporate Social Responsibility
Evaristus Oshionebo
- Law and policy governing extraction and mining of natural resources
- Corporate responsibility
- Corporate governance
- Regulation of transnational corporations
- Sustainable development
- Intellectual property law
- International investment law
Bryce Tingle
- Corporate Finance
- Entrepreneurial Law
- Corporate Law
- Securities Law
- Corporate Governance
From Isolation to Inclusion: How Diversity Drives Equitable Innovation (Webinar)
To make this ever-changing world a better, more inclusive place for all Canadians, innovators must recognize and value difference and cultivate a welcoming space for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). Join our panel of innovators and researchers on campus and in the community to discuss how diversity is driving equitable innovation.
Creating safe spaces
Research at the University of Calgary provides answers to common personal security problems, from workplace bullying to Internet security to domestic violence.
Internet and the law: protecting yourself against online abuse (Webinar)
Join researcher Emily Laidlaw as she examines the current laws that apply to the problem of online abuse and explores legal reforms that could better tackle the harm involved.
Can we be public and private at the same time? The coded thrill of cyberconnectivity
Everything we do online is observed and recorded by people we can't see and mostly don't even know about. UCalgary researchers look at how to increase security and maintain privacy in a world where they're constantly under attack.
Related Clinics
- BLG Business Venture Clinic
- Intellectual Property Clinic