Slides & Materials

Law Society of B.C.’s 3rd Annual Rule of Law Lecture: Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin & Richard Peck, Q.C. on “Privacy, Technology and The Rule of Law”

The third annual LSBC Rule of Law Lecture took place on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at UBC Robson Square. The speakers addressed subjects covered extensively in this course, particularly “whither regulation?” and how privacy law fits (or not) in a digital world. Given that the speakers were the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former chief justice […]

“Regulation & Blockchain”: Presentation at the 3rd Annual BlockChain@UBC Summer Institute

Blockchain has not been an ever-present subject in Communications Law. That said the subject has certainly come up on a reasonably regular basis in the context of the course over the years. Personally, the jury is mostly still out for me on whether blockchain is merely a proposed answer to questions few if any are […]

Preparing for the last class of the semester

On Tuesday I will give a talk on “Ethical & Normative Considerations for A.I. Enabled Content“. It is a preview of my talk later this week at conference put on by the Centre for Commercial law Studies, Queen Mary University of London School of Law. In reality, though it can be seen as a standalone, […]