The Future of Law in Technology and Governance

In private law, private rights of action afford rights holders the authority—but not the obligation—to enforce a claim for remedies against a wrongdoer.

This chapter uses the development and eventual abandonment of these ASRM pricing guidelines over more than twenty-five years as a lens through which to understand commodification debates in both the sperm and egg markets.

This presentation identifies tactics to bolster resilience against digitally enabled threats across three temporal phases: anticipating and preparing for disruptions, adapting to and withstanding disruptions, and recovering from disruptions.

Through data selection, decisional design, training, testing, and tuning to managing AI’s developments as it is used in the human world, humans exert agency and control over these choices and practices.

At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, in “The Equality Machine” Orly Lobel defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future.

Political communication scholar Katherine Haenschen shares her own experimental work and that of others showing how text messages are effective at increasing voter turnout, volunteer participation, and donations.

As the problems of misinformation, child welfare, and heightened political polarization on social media platforms grow more salient, lawmakers and advocates are pushing to grant independent researchers access to social media data to better understand these problems.

This talk introduces the audience to prominent AI risks, the current state of AI ethics, the landscape of AI regulation worldwide, and what organizations should do to develop and use AI responsibly.

Drawing on American pragmatism, Jane Winn and Pam Dixon contrast the U.S.’s compliance-driven, innovation-friendly approach with the EU’s bureaucratic model, proposing a federal framework that balances privacy protection with economic growth.

This is a presentation and discussion on Artificial Justice, an ongoing experimental project that explores the complex intersections of Generative AI & the Law.

With the steady increaIFramese in the use of AI/ML mechanisms in regulatory decision-making at the federal and state level, important questions arise about how best to use and adapt administrative law rules to agency decision making.

In June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning nearly 50 years of precedent established in its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.

This project explores whether and how regular people, the group of non-crypto enthusiast business owners that make-up the majority of LLC members, can take advantage of the rise of computational LLCs.

Dr. Postan’s monograph establishes the ethical imperative for information disclosure practices to take seriously the impacts on our identity-constituting narratives of our encounters with bioinformation about ourselves. 

Valerie Racine discuses the role of Blockchain in the ethics of research on human subjects.

Felix Chang and Erin McCabe discuss developing new tools for antitrust research through topic modeling and investigating the redistributive potential of legal rules in trusts and estates.

As antitrust agencies around the world are just starting to experiment with different ways to limit algorithmic coordination, there is no better time to explore how best to achieve this important task.

Danielle Citron, University of Virginia presented The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age.

CGM hosted 'Information Privacy and the Inference Economy' featuring speaker Alicia Solow-Niederman.

Teresa Scassa discusses privacy concerns in university use of technology following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This seminar offers a fascinating exposition on the forces shaping modern venture capital.

Using the case of the USDA and organic farming legislation, the panelists discuss the systemic understanding of institutional language through "institutional syntax" in policy.

Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern University presented Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law.

Annette Vee presented NFTs, Digital Scarcity, and the Computational Aura, as part of our fall seminar series on the Future of Law in Technology and Governance.

Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey presented The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

Margaret Hu, Pennsylvania State University presented The Big Data Constitution.

Brett Frischmann, Villanova University presented To What End? On Infrastructural Governance.

 Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School presented Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment.