Past seasons

2023–2024

2022–2023

  • September 21, 2022, Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota) – How Privilege Undermines Cybersecurity; discussant: Asaf Lubin (Indiana)
  • October 19, 2022, Blake Reid (Colorado) – The Incoherence of Common Carriage Law; discussant: Tejas N. Narechania (Berkeley)
  • November 16, 2022, Janet Freilich (Fordham) – Patents’ New Salience; discussant: Rebecca Wolitz (Ohio)
  • December 19, 2022 [Monday session], Bryan Choi (Ohio) – Cyber Trust in NIST; discussant: Derek Bambauer (Arizona)
  • January 18, 2023, Yan Fang (Berkeley) – The Managerialization of Search Law and Procedure for Internet Evidence; discussant: Matthew Tokson (Utah)
  • February 15, 2023, Andrew Gilden (Willamette) – The Queer Limits of Revenge Porn; discussant: Kendra Albert (Harvard)
  • March 15, 2023, Greg Dickinson (St. Thomas, Florida) – Privately Policing Dark Patterns; discussant: Ryan Calo (Washington)
  • April 26, 2023 [moved from April 19], Amanda Levendowski (Georgetown) – Defragging Feminist Cyberlaw; discussant: Carys Craig (York)
  • May 17, 2023, Shelly Simana (Stanford) – Genetic Fiduciaries: Rethinking Genome Governance; discussant Jorge Contreras (Utah)
  • June 21, 2023, Fanna Gamal (UCLA) – The Racial Proxy; discussant: Jessica Eaglin (Indiana)
  • July 19, 2023, Chinmayi Sharma (Texas) – A Framework for Interoperability Interventions; discussant Mark Lemley (Stanford)

2021-2022

  • November 3, Jessica Eaglin (Indiana) – Algorithms as Racial Ideology in Law; discussant: Ngozi Okidegbe (Cardozo)
  • December 8, Anat Lior (Yale) – Insuring AI: The Role of Insurance in Artificial Intelligence Regulation; discussant: Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota)
  • January 12, Andrew Woods (Arizona) – The Public Cost of Private Platforms; discussant: Jane Bambauer (Arizona)
  • February 9, Tiffany Li (New Hampshire) – Algorithmic Shadow Harms; discussant: Ari E. Waldman (Northeastern)
  • March 9, Itay Ravid (Villanova) & Amit Haim (Stanford) – Progressive Algorithm; discussant: Margaret Hu (Penn State)
  • April 13, Brenda Dvoskin (Harvard) – Speaking Back to Sexual-Privacy Invasions; discussant: Thomas Kadri (Georgia)
  • May 11, Brad Greenwood (George Mason) & Paul Vaaler (Minnesota) – All For Naught: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Breach Notification Laws; discussant: Gus Hurwitz (Nebraska)
  • June 15, Yael Lifshitz (King’s College London) – Property Beyond Land; discussant: João Marinotti (Indiana)

2020-2021

  • July 28, Gregory Dickinson, The Internet Immunity Escape Hatch
  • July 14, Mailyn Fidler, A Partial Property Rights Theory of the Fourth Amendment
  • June 23, Afsaneh Rigot, Tech, Law and Human Rights: MENA LGBTQ Prosecutions Case Study
  • June 9, Asaf Lubin and João Marinotti, Equity and Self Help in Cyberspace: The Law on Court Authorized Hack-backs and Botnet Takedowns
  • May 26, Matt Wansley, The End of Accident Liability
  • May 12, Bryan Choi, AI Malpractice
  • April 28, Nizan Geslevich Packin, Show Me the (Data About the) Money!
  • April 14, Kyle Langvardt, Checking Apex Platforms
  • March 24, Daniel Maggen, Bad Learning: Algorithmic Decisions and Legal Progress
  • March 10, Maria Lucia Passador, Artificial Intelligence for Post-Covid Companies: An Empirical Analysis of Tech Committees in the EU and the US
  • February 10, Tabrez Ebrahim, A Fiduciary Theory of Corporate Cybersecurity
  • January 27, Kate Klonick Facebook Oversight Board’s First Decisions
  • Jan 13,Ngozi Okidegbe, The Democratizing Potential of Algorithms
  • Dec 9,George Wang, De-Coding Free Speech
  • Nov 11, Nikolas Guggenberger, Essential Platforms
  • Sept 23, Lauren Scholz, Privacy as Private Law: Rule Of Law In The Private Sphere
  • Sept 9, Andrew Keane Roods, Robophobia
  • Aug 26, Mailyn Fidler, Situational Right to Exclude: A Privacy-Protective Return To A Property-Based Fourth Amendment
  • July 2, Aaron Cooper, Congressional Surveillance
  • June 18, Jacob Victor, Utility-Expanding Fair Use
  • June 11, Lauren Scholz, Fiduciary Boilerplate
  • May 7, Kiel Brennan-Marquez & Daniel Susser, Risk, Fairness, And Radical Informational Asymmetry
  • May 21, Charlotte Tschider, Beyond The Black Box
  • April 23, Half-Baked Ideas: Elana Zeide, “Scored Society” And Ensuring Fair Algorithmic Decisions, And Blake Reid, Copyright’s Role In The Accessibility Of Creative Works
  • April 16, Rebecca Crootof & Bj Ard, Structuring Techlaw
  • April 9, Half-Baked Ideas: Alan Rozenshtein, Disease Surveillance and The Fourth Amendment and Josh Fairfield, on TBD
  • April 2, “The Quarantine Reading List”