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Join us for a book talk on Ryan Calo’s “Law and Technology,” exploring a clear framework for governing tech and defending digital rights.
Overview
Technology is difficult to study, let alone regulate. While law is uniquely positioned to channel technology toward human flourishing, technology poses special challenges to law and governance, obscuring human will and responsibility, stalling regulatory action, and putting rights and values into constant defense. The consequences can be dire. The United States spent three decades without a plan for nuclear waste disposal and still lacks comprehensive privacy laws many years into the information revolution. Law and technology as a field, meanwhile, has yet to cohere.
In light of these challenges, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach offers a defensible and consistent approach to the legal analysis of technology, one capable of navigating technology’s capacity to confuse and confound. Ryan Calo puts forward a step-by-step methodology for thinking about and ultimately challenging technology to meet society’s demands. The book demonstrates that, no less than health law or law and economics, law and technology deserves a field of its own. To this end, it helps formalize legal analysis of physical and digital artifacts and systems, sowing the seeds for the concept of law and technology itself.
About our speakers
RYAN CALO is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor at the University of Washington, where he holds appointments in law, computer science, and information science. Professor Calo’s research on law and emerging technology appears in leading law reviews (California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review) and technical publications (MIT Press, Nature, Artificial Intelligence) and is frequently referenced by the national media. Calo is the cofounder of two interdisciplinary research institutions at the University focusing on technology policy and the study of misinformation, and has chaired a university-wide President and Provost task force on technology and society. He also cofounded the leading North American conference on robotics and artificial intelligence law and has testified before the United States Senate about technology four times.
DANIELLE CITRON is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor of Law and Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. She is the inaugural director of the Law School’s LawTech Center. In 2019, Citron was named a MacArthur Fellow based on her work on cyberstalking and intimate privacy.
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