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Canadian Journal of Law and Technology

Keywords

We Robot, interdisciplinary legal research, robotos, artificial intelligence, AI regulation

Abstract

This special We Robot issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology is particularly ‘‘special” to us for a variety of reasons. It presents an important opportunity to highlight the interdisciplinarity required to meaningfully engage with robotics and artificial intelligence (‘‘AI”) regulation. It highlights the growing international connections among law and technology scholars. And it features many of the cutting-edge papers from one of the world’s premier law and robotics conferences, We Robot.

The thirteenth annual We Robot 2025 conference was held at the University of Windsor in April 2025. This conference marked the first ever in-person gathering of We Robot in Canada, chaired and hosted by Professor Kristen Thomasen, an associate professor and Chair in Law, Robotics, and Society at Windsor Law. We are grateful to all of the sponsors that made this conference possible.

We Robot originated in 2012, co-founded by Professors Michael Froomkin, Ryan Calo, and our late friend, Ian Kerr. It has since established itself as a thoroughly interdisciplinary conference where experts from a range of fields contribute to thinking around the regulation of robots and AI. This annual conference has become a primary site for knowledge exchange on topics related to robotics law and policy, where emerging and established scholars share their ideas, including through artistic expression and robotics demonstrations. An interdisciplinary program committee, workshop committee, committed discussants, academic authors, roboticists, and artists make this conference a success year after year.

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