Céline Castets-Renard

Céline Castets-Renard is a full professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law section, at the University of Ottawa. She holds the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative AI Law (Tier 1) and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) Research Chair, AI Law and Governance in a Global Economy, in Toulouse (AI cluster-ANR). From 2015 to 2019, she was an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and she is currently an affiliated fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. From 2021 to 2023, she was an expert member of the European Commission's Observatory on the Economics of Online Platforms. She is a member of the copyright working group drafting the code of practice for general-purpose AI models at the AI Office of the European Commission. Castets-Renard’s research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence from an international and comparative-law perspective (focusing on 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 she studies gender issues in technology.