Date & time
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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Justice in the Age of Generative AI
Explore how generative AI is reshaping justice, courts and rights, with insight on law, ethics, privacy and accountability.
Join Concordia Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes University of Ottawa Law Professor Karen Eltis, one of Canada’s leading experts in the impact of new technologies on democratic governance, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Important note
This conference will be presented on Zoom. A link to Zoom will be sent out on the day of the event.
Open to:
All students are welcome from any faculty and degree.
To participating lawyers:
Since Concordia University is an organization distinct from the Bar of Quebec, you must declare your hours of training in your personal file. A certificate of attendance representing 1.5 hours of continuing education will be issued to lawyers who attend this conference.
Law Meets Engineering Lecture Series
Concordia Jurist-in-Residence Morton Minc hosts a series of law-related lectures by prominent speakers, designed for students at the Gina Cody School. The series explores the intersection of law, technology, and leadership—skills that are essential for today’s professionals.
Guest speaker
Prof. Karen Eltis is Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
A past director of the uOttawa Human Rights Centre, Professor Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence/ innovation law and policy and cybersecurity from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. She is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (2016-2018).
Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Romanian and proficient in German and Italian, Professor Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Professor Eltis was a litigation associate in New York City. Her research on privacy was cited three times by the Supreme Court of Canada, in A.B. v. Bragg (2012), Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec inc. (2020), and Sherman Estate v. Donovan (2021) as well as by other Canadian and foreign courts.
Professor Eltis’ latest book, titled Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition (Irwin Law, 2016), was supported by a CIRA grant. Her research on artificial intelligence and expression is supported by the Foundation for Legal Research.