Portrait of Catherine Régis

Catherine Régis

Associate Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Université de Montréal
Research Topics
Deep Learning
Online Learning

Biography

Catherine Régis is a full professor of law at Université de Montréal and the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy. She is also an associate academic member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, where she holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and the director of Social Innovation and International Policy at IVADO.

Régis is involved in a number of international initiatives, including the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), where she serves as an expert member for their Responsible AI Working Group, a group she also co-chaired from 2021 to 2023. She leads HAICU (Human-centred AI+ for/by Colleges and Universities) for the U7+ Alliance, a coalition of more than fifty universities from around the world. Régis helped draft the Montréal Declaration on Responsible AI as a member of its scientific committee. Her work focuses on global AI governance, the regulation of AI in health care systems, and the integration of human rights approaches in AI.

Current Students

Maelenn Corfmat
PhD - Université de Montréal
Eve Gaumond
PhD - Université de Montréal
Website
Github
Google Scholar

Publications

Collegiality as political work: Professions in today’s world of organizations
Jean-Louis Denis
Gianluca Veronesi
Catherine Régis
Sabrina Germain
Collegiality is frequently portrayed as an inherent characteristic of professions, associated with normative expectations autonomously deter… (see more)mined and regulated among peers. However, in advanced modernity other modes of governance responding to societal expectations and increasing state reliance on professional expertise often appear in tension with conditions of collegiality. This article argues that collegiality is not an immutable and inherent characteristic of the governance of professional work and organizations; rather, it is the result of the ability of a profession to operationalize the normative, relational, and structural requirements of collegiality at work. This article builds on different streams of scholarship to present a dynamic approach to collegiality based on political work by professionals to protect, maintain, and reformulate collegiality as a core set of principles governing work. Productive resistance and co-production are explored for their contribution to collegiality in this context, enabling accommodation between professions and organizations to achieve collective objectives and serving as a vector of change and adaptation of professional work in contemporary organizations. Engagement in co-production influences the ability to materialize collegiality at work, just as the maintenance and transformation of collegiality will operate in a context where professions participate and negotiate compromises with others legitimate modes of governance. Our arguments build on recent studies and hypotheses concerning the interface of professions and organizations to reveal the political work that underlies the affirmation and re-affirmation of collegiality as a mode of governance of work based on resistance and co-production.
2019-10-24
Journal of Professions and Organization (published)
doi.org
Improving advance medical directives: lessons from Quebec
Louise G. Bernier
Catherine Régis
Policy-makers’ efforts to increase the uptake of advance medical directives (AMDs), and the legal constraints they impose on health profes… (see more)sionals, are bringing greater scrutiny to provincial AMD regimes. In 2015, Quebec introduced a new, legally binding form to be filled out for AMDs, which limits individuals’ expression of their wishes to narrow, checklist responses to questions on specific medical interventions. This form-focused regime has other shortcomings: it relies on individuals to self-inform and it does not provide them the opportunity to meaningfully convey their preferences for end-of-life care. A more values-based and collaborative approach provides a better path forward for Quebec and for other provinces.
2019-01-01
(published)
www.semanticscholar.org
La science, un droit humain. Mettre en œuvre le principe d’une science participative, équitable et accessible à tous
Catherine Régis
2019-01-01
(published)
www.semanticscholar.org