This content is not available in the selected language. When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic more than a year ago, physical courtrooms across Canada and around the world closed, doing their part to slow the spread of the coronavirus. In response, court proceedings at all levels went online using pre-existing platforms, including Zoom. This “new […] Read more
The Cyberjustice Lab is pleased to announce that professor Nicolas Vermeys, assistant director of the Lab, has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant. This grant is awarded for 3 years (2021-2024) for the project "Les incidences de l’architecture logicielle des tribunaux en ligne sur l’accès à la justice ", with professors Karim Benyekhlef and Pierre-Luc Déziel […] Read more
Only in french Une équipe de la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval dirigée par le professeur Pierre-Luc Déziel et composée de Hélène Zimmermann et Satchel Dell’olio Delpech publie une étude relative à l’incidence des technologies de l’information et des communications sur la formation des juristes au Québec. Financée par le ministère de la Justice […] Read more
Only in french Le Laboratoire de cyberjustice est heureux d'annoncer qu'il a été sélectionné en tant qu'organisme de la société civile pour participer au Comité en gouvernement ouvert du Québec du Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor. Le mandat du comité sera : *de conseiller le Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor quant à l’élaboration de nouveaux plans […] Read more
Only in french Le Conseil de l’Europe adopte des lignes directrices en matière de reconnaissance faciale. Les États signataires de la Convention 108 doivent en tenir compte dans les textes qu’ils adoptent. Certaines utilisations sont proscrites. Le secteur privé n’est pas gâté. La Convention 108 du Conseil de l’Europe On l’oublie parfois, mais la directive de 1995 […] Read more
The Cyberjustice Lab is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation (USA) has awarded a $357,000 (3-year) grant under the program « Fairness in Artificial Intelligence » to the project Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice led by Professor Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh), chief of subproject 2 of the […] Read more
Interdisciplinary thinking is a key success factor for any community. "Bridging Digital Communities" is the motto of the 21st I4CS, to be held from May 26 until 28, 2021 in Bamberg/Germany, dedicated to challenging aspects around modern community systems. Due to worldwide pandemic travel constraints, the steering committee will decide on the toleration of virtual […] Read more
Maxime Colleret - doctoral student in the Science, Technology and Society program at UQAM - and Yves Gringas - professor in the Department of History at UQAM - present a reflection on the artificial intelligence network in Quebec, published by the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie. This document is only […] Read more
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Šavelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley and Karim Benyekhlef - Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory - co-authored a paper entitled "Sentence Embeddings and High-Speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents" which received the Best Paper Award at the Jurix 2020 conference. Jurix Best Paper 2020 Announcement Abstract […] Read more
David Beauchemin, Nicolas Garneau, Ève Gaumond, Pierre-Luc Deziel, Richard Khoury, and Luc Lamontagne - professors at the Université de Laval - explore in this publication the ethical issues of access to judicial information. ABSTRACT Plumitifs (dockets) were initially a tool for law clerks. Nowadays, they are used as summaries presenting all the steps of a […] Read more
