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Symposium on E-Health to be held on 28 January 2010

Symposium on E-Health to be held on 28 January 2010

There's been much talk about poor leadership and wasteful spending with respect to eHealth in Ontario, but there has been little discussion about the fundamental issues associated with e-Health. Do you know who owns electronic health records? Is it the hospital? The doctor? The government? The patient? Aside from privacy and ethics, electronic health records […]

(In)justice in Intellectual Property

(In)justice in Intellectual Property

Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. He introduces his current thesis research below. ‘That is why there is no hope for the vagrant as he stands before the magistrate.  Even if, through his stammerings, he should utter a cry to pierce the soul, neither the magistrate nor the public […]

Feminism and Intellectual Property Law

Feminism and Intellectual Property Law

Munyonzwe Hamalengwa is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. Feminism along with marxist, critical legal studies and critical race theories have mounted serious challenges to the inherited western legal tradition that has claimed that law is neutral and objective even though law, from time immemorial […]

eBay found liable for the sale of luxury goods on its site despite court injunction

eBay found liable for the sale of luxury goods on its site despite court injunction

George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week a French court ordered eBay to pay €1.7M in damages to LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a holding company of a number of luxury goods brands, for failing to comply with an injunction set as part of an earlier ruling. The injunction, […]