About the Author

• Author: Karen Eltis
• Pages: 187-187

187

About the Author

Karen Eltis is a law professor specializing in Internet law and policy (pri-

vacy and data securit y), comparative law, and democratic governance. She

is a tenured professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa,

Canada (Section de droit civil), the former co-director of the Centre for

Law, Technology and Society, and director of the Human Rights Centre.

Professor Eltis is also an associate adjunct professor and visiting scholar

at Columbia Law School in New York, where she focuses on the impact of

new technologies on constitutional rights. She served as senior advisor to

the National Judicial Institute where her focus was bijuralism, technology,

and ethics. Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Romanian, and Spanish,

Professor Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone

Scholar). She clerked for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme

Court of Israel. Prior to joining the facult y at the University of Ottawa,

Professor Eltis was a litigation associate in New York City, practising in

the area of international dispute resolution.