A scholarly seminar series hosted on Zoom and co-sponsored by Pitt Law’s Future Law Project and Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets. Professor Michael Madison produces and moderates the series. The seminars are open to students and researchers around the world.
Spring 2021 seminars
- Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School, “Competing Algorithms for Law“
- Brett Frischmann, Villanova University, “To What End? On Infrastructural Governance”
- Margaret Hu, Penn State University, “The Big Data Constitution”
Fall 2021 seminars
- Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey, “The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law”
- Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh, “NFTs, Digital Scarcity, and the Computational Aura”
- Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern University, “Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law”
- Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University, and Christopher Frantz, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, “The Institutional Grammar Research Initiative”
Spring 2022 seminars
- M. R. Sauter, University of Maryland, “Every Rotten Idea Since Adam: How ERISA Reform Made Modern Venture Capital”
- Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa, “The Surveillant University”
- Alicia Solow-Niederman, Harvard University, “Information Privacy and the Inference Economy”
- Danielle Citron, University of Virginia, “The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age”
Fall 2022 seminars
- Michal Gal, University of Haifa, “Algorithmic Cartels”
- Felix Chang, University of Cincinnati, and Erin McCabe, University of Cincinnati, “Modeling the Caselaw Access Project”
- Valerie Racine, “Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genome Banks?”
- Emily Postan, “Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation”
Spring 2023 seminars
- Carla Reyes, “Computational Entities for Regular People”
- Michael Sinha, Data Privacy and Security Concerns After Roe v Wade
- Dan Rodriguez, Judging the Black Box: AI and Administrative Law
- Jessica Silbey, Sarah Newman, and Halsey Burgund, Artificial Justice
- Jane Winn and Pam Dixon, Using Information Privacy Standards to Build Governance Markets
- Ravit Dotan, Introduction to AI Ethics
Fall 2023 seminars
[All seminars are hosted on Zoom from 3 pm to 4 pm ET unless noted otherwise.]- Salomé Viljoen, University of Michigan (September 21, 2023)
- Katherine Haenschen, Northeastern University (October 5, 2023)
- Orly Lobel, University of San Diego (November 9, 2023)
- Charlotte Tschider, Loyola University Chicago (December 7, 2023)
Spring 2024 seminars
[All seminars are hosted on Zoom from 3 pm to 4 pm ET unless noted otherwise.]- Kristen Eichensehr, University of Virginia, and Ashley Deeks, University of Virginia (January 25, 2024)
- Kim Krawiec, University of Virginia (February 22, 2024)
- Sara Gerke, Penn State University (March 14, 2024) [3:30 pm to 4:30 pm ET]
- Kristelia Garcia, Georgetown University (April 4, 2024)