As technology facilitates the expansion of social, economic, and political horizons, boundless opportunity must be tempered with thoughtful and humane constraint, guided by the values and principles that sustain democracy and human rights. CDE scholars including Laura DeNardis, Julie Cohen, Meg Leta Jones, and Anupam Chander study the history of technology governance and reimagine it for the new digital frontier. They help students, colleagues, policymakers, and the public to confront the unprecedented choices and challenges created by technological practice and innovation. In this endeavor, they raise profound philosophical questions, analyze critical political and social repercussions, and create intellectual and practical pathways to a future that can meet the enormous promise–and shoulder the tremendous responsibility–engendered by human technological progress.
Internet Governance
Laura DeNardis, The Global War for Internet Governance (2014)
Interim Report on Blockchain Governance Practices (2023), (contributor, as part of a multi-stakeholder advisory council)
Interplanetary Internet Governance (Centre for International Governance Innovation), 2023
Surveillance, Privacy and Data Protection, Intellectual Property
Julie Cohen, Between Truth and Power (2019) and Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (2012)
Julie E. Cohen, Law for the Platform Economy, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 133-204 (2017).
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Julie E. Cohen, The Regulatory State in the Information Age, 17 Theoretical Inquiries L. 369-414 (2016). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
Research Rules and Technological Change, Digital Oblivion, Digital Consent
The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy (2024); Feminist Cyberlaw (with Amanda Levendowski), 2024; Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten
Voting for Consent. Boston University Law Review 104, no. 4 (2024, with Paul Ohm).
Constructing AI Speech. Yale Law Journal Forum (2024, with Margot Kaminski).
Cookies: A Legacy of Controversy, 4(1) Internet Histories, Special Issue on Legacy Systems 87-104 (2020).
Global Regulation of New Technologies
Anupam Chander, The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World in Commerce
Anupam Chander & Paul Schwartz, The President’s Foreign Affairs Power Over Personal Data, 172 Penn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
Anupam Chander, The Trade Origins of Privacy Law, 99 Ind. L.J. 649-674 (2024). [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Chander quoted in ABC News story about what a Harris Administration might mean for Silicon Valley.
