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Prior to his appointment to the Faculty of Law at
the University of Ottawa in 2000, Ian Kerr held a joint appointment in
the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Information & Media Studies and
the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. His
devotion to teaching has earned six awards and citations, including the
Bank of Nova Scotia Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the
University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Award of
Teaching Excellence, and the University of Ottawa’s AEECLSS Teaching
Excellence Award. Professor Kerr currently teaches a graduate seminar
in the LLM concentration in law and technology (Technoprudence: Legal Theory in an Information Age),
as well as a unique seminar offered each year during the month of
January in Puerto Rico that brings students from very different legal
traditions together to exchange culture, values, and ideas and to unite
in the study of technology law issues of global importance (TechnoRico).
Professor Kerr also teaches in the areas of moral philosophy and
applied ethics, internet and ecommerce law, contract law and legal
theory.
In 2001, Professor Kerr was awarded the
Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology. He has published
writings in academic books and journals on ethical and legal aspects of
digital copyright, automated electronic commerce, artificial
intelligence, cybercrime, nanotechnology, internet regulation, ISP and
intermediary liability, online defamation, pre-natal injuries and
unwanted pregnancies. His current program of research includes two
large projects: (i) On the Identity Trail,
supported by one of the largest ever grants from the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council, focusing on the impact of information
and authentication technologies on our identity and our right to be
anonymous; and (ii) An Examination of Digital Copyright, supported by a
large private sector grant from Bell Canada and the Ontario Research
Network in Electronic Commerce, focusing on various aspects of the
current effort to reform Canadian copyright legislation, including the
implications of such reform on fundamental Canadian values including
privacy and freedom of expression.
Dr. Kerr is a
member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Academic Coordinating
Committee of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, the Centre for
Ethics and Values, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the
Canadian Bar Association, and the Uniform Law Commission of Canada’s
Special Working Group on Electronic Commerce. He is an associate editor
of Kluwer’s Electronic Commerce Research Journal, a guest editor for
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press), and sits
as a member on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Internet Policy and
Public Interest Clinic and on the Advisory Board of Butterworths’
Canadian Internet and E-Commerce Law Newsletter. He is also co-author
of Managing the Law (Prentice Hall), a business law text used by
thousands of students each year at universities across Canada.
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