RESEARCH

Researcher
Interdisciplinary Research Center in Cybersecurity (CRICUS) (2024-present)
Interdisciplinary Research Group in Cybersecurity (GRIC) (2021-2024)

Source : GRIC Official Website, Claudiu Popa (2024)

The Center brings together researchers, graduate students from the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Law, the School of Management and the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Sherbrooke. CRICUS brings a new perspective to the study of cybersecurity that integrates key concepts in engineering, computer science, law, management and applied policy.

Multidisciplinary collaborative work with a team of university professors and other professionals

Participation in interdisciplinary research projects : School of Management, Faculty of Law, and School of Applied Politics

Publications

  • Benjamin Ali Aboudou, Samiha Abounouar, Marylise Caron, Daniel Chamberland-Tremblay, Félix Gariépy, Manon Ghislaine Guillemette, Hugo Loiseau, Moumouni Krissiamba Ouiminga, Arthur Oulaï, Claudiu Popa, Aboubakar Séhéna Soro, Pierre-Martin Tardif, Guide to Digital Identity Security in a Cloud-Based Digital Organizational Transformation Context, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 2022, 45 pages

  • Claudiu Popa, Pierre-Martin Tardif et Hugo Loiseau, Case Study on Canadian Governance in Digital Identity, Interdisciplinary Research Group in Cybersecurity, Université de Sherbrooke, 2022, 7 pages

  • Interdisciplinary research, writing, and publication project 2: Cybersecurity Governance and Legislation of Critical Infrastructure in Quebec and Canada (chapter on cybercriminality, writing in progress)

Researcher
Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke (2017-2024)


Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Bordeaux, Institute of Criminal Sciences and Justice of Bordeaux (2018-2024)

  • Scientific research and writing as part of the double doctorate in law

  • Claudiu Popa, Evidence Collection and State investigation in the Era of the “Police, Intelligence Services, Private Corporations” Ecosystem. In Search of the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights, doctoral thesis, Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke and Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Bordeaux University, 2024, 633 pages,  online :  <https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/22601>

Research Assistant
Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke (Autumn 2019)

  • Digital and traditional legal research focusing on the reasons for verdicts rendered by the French Assize Court justifying the guilt and sentence of an accused person

  • Digital classification of search results

  • Collaboration with the professor responsible for the research activity

Research Assistant
Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke (Winter 2015)

  • Legal research, both digital and traditional, on the theme of the theory of criminalization of offenses involving prostitution-related activities

  • Digital classification of research results

  • Collaboration with the professor responsible for the research activity

Editor-in-chief
University of Sherbrooke Law Review (R.D.U.S.) (Summer 2012)

  • Scientific Law Review funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

  • Chairing the student editorial board of the Law Review

  • Coordinating the organization of tasks and managing team assignments

  • Ensuring the scientific rigor of publications

  • Manage the distribution of the Law Review

  • Reading, reviewing and selecting scientific articles on various legal subjects submitted to the Law Review before sending them to external review 

  • Contacting different professors and university experts to request a scientific opinion on the appropriateness of publishing articles submitted to the Law Review

  • Some examples of scientific articles handled under my editorship :

  • Writing the abstract of Justice Michèle Rivet’s scientific article :

    • Michèle Rivet and Anne-Marie Santorineos, « Juger à l’ère des droits fondamentaux », (2012) 42 R.D.U.S. 636

  • Reviewing the legal references of several scientific publications :

    • Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, « Le caractère asymétrique du processus collectif de négociation : l’exemple du contexte d’adoption du régime d’accès aux médicaments au Canada », in Louise Lalonde (dir.) in collaboration with Stéphane Bernatchez, Le droit, vecteur de la gouvernance en santé? Défis théoriques et enjeux pratiques de l'accès aux soins de la santé, Sherbrooke, Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke Editions, 2012, p. 195-218

    • Laurence Largenté, « La participation du public et le risque dans le domaine des médicaments », Actes de colloque ACFAS mai 2011, R.D.U.S., 2012 (https://laurence.largente.org/publications/la-participation-du-public-et-le-risque-dans-le-domaine-des-medicaments/)

    • Christian Saint-Germain, « Les leçons de Pierre Legendre sur la casse subjective : nouvelle clinique juridique autour du tiers? », (2011) 41-3 R.D.U.S. 671 (https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/10315)

Research Subjects

  • Canadian and French criminal law, evidence law and criminal procedure law, digital police investigation techniques

    critical analysis of a plurality of legal instruments available to state investigative services in the collection of digital evidence of telecommunications, geolocation, biometric identification, digital behavioral and financial evidence concerning the individual investigated

  • Cybersecurity et cybercriminality

    analysis and assessment of the risks of confidentiality incidents that result in the commission of cybercrimes and the impacts of cybersecurity on criminal law in general, including on state investigative powers, the risk of cybercrimes, the actors participating in cybercrimes, etc.

  • Defense et national security

    critical analysis of Canadian and French national security legislation in relation to the power of intelligence services to collect personal information and communicate it to state investigative services for criminal investigation purposes

    analysis of the practices of Canadian (CSIS and CST) and French (DGSI and DGSE) intelligence services in the collection and communication of information

  • National and international intelligence

    critical analysis of the legal framework allowing Canadian and French investigative services to exchange information

    analysis of intelligence communication practices between Canadian and French intelligence services and the intelligence services of other countries, notably via the Five Eyes Alliance

  • Right to privacy and other fundamental rights

    analysis of cybersecurity, cybercrime and cyber legal instruments of state investigation

    analysis and assessment of the impacts on unreasonable searches, seizures and seizures by the state, on the right to privacy, the right to anonymity, principles of fundamental justice, including the presumption of innocence, the right to silence, the right not to be compelled, the principle prohibiting self-incrimination

    analysis and assessment of the impacts on public confidence in the administration of justice and on digital evidence (inadmissibility, probative value, possibility of digital alteration)

  • Labour Law

    analysis of factors of collusion between union and employer and assessment of the impacts on employee rights

    critical analysis of the remedies available to employees in a union environment

  • Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants

    critical analysis of the perception and attitude of the judiciary towards self-represented litigants

  • Judicial Ethics

    critical analysis of the ethical issues facing Canadian and Quebec judges

    critical analysis of the role of judicial councils