Dr. C茅line Castets-Renard is the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence, a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. C茅line Castets-Renard also holds the Research Chair AI Law and Governance in a Global Economy at - Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANR AI Cluster). She is an Honorary Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) (2015-2019) and an affiliate of the Yale Internet Society Project.
Dr. C茅line Castets-Renard is as Vice-Chair (Copyright) of the Working Group on transparency and copyright-related rules to lead the development of the European Union AI Office鈥檚 first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. She was an expert member of the European Commission's Observatory on the Economics of Online Platforms (2021-2023).
Dr. Castets-Renard's research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) from an international and comparative law perspective - mainly the European Union, Canada and the United States. She is an expert in AI law, personal data law, digital copyright law and platform regulation. She is also more broadly interested in the impact of technologies on human rights, equity and social justice, and studies gender issues in technologies. She has written over a hundred articles and contributions to conference proceedings, 2 monographs, 3 textbooks
and edited or co-edited 4 books.
Before joining the University of Ottawa in 2019, Dr. Castets-Renard was a senior lecturer and then a professor at the Universit茅 Toulouse Capitole (2002-2019). She was a visiting senior lecturer at the Universit茅 de Nouvelles Cal茅donie (2010-2011), where she conducted research on the protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and intellectual property. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School (2017-2019), as well as a Visiting Scholar
at the Yale Internet Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School (2018-2019). She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities around the world, including Fordham Law School University, Washington University in Saint Louis, China University of Political Science and Law, Osaka University, University of Rikkyo, Hanoi University, Universit茅 Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal, University TEC Monterrey in Mexico, Universit茅 Carlos III de Madrid, Universit茅 Laval in Quebec.
She holds a PhD in copyright law from Universit茅 Paris Saclay (2001), a DEA from Universit茅 de Montpellier (1998) and a master's degree in business law from Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne (1996). She is an alumnus of the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure de Cachan (1994-1998) and 鈥渁gr茅g茅e du secondaire鈥 in law, economics and management (1997).