Karen Eltis is a Full Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Recently awarded the Mundell Medal by the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario for excellence in legal writing and innovation, Professor Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence and cyberlaw from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. 
Karen is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy and is fluent in five languages. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Professor Eltis was a litigation associate in New York City.
Professor Eltis’ book, titled Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition (Irwin Law, 2016), was supported by a CIRA grant. She also co-edits Defamation Law, Canada, UK, Australia, United States, Thomson Reuters and is actively involved in Judicial Education on law and new technologies, including AI.