Yale Law Cyber Leadership Forum hosts discussion on international cybersecurity enforcement
YALE DAILY NEWS — The session, open to the general public on Zoom, was the second of seven biweekly Thursday webinars this semester meant to bridge the divide among law, technology, policy and business communities on the most critical cybersecurity challenges. Each webinar focuses on a different challenge related to the theme of sovereignty.
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UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering, public policy and law at UCLA. As director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, which launched in January 2020 with a five-year, $10.25 million grant, his work lies at the intersection of technology, policy, law and business.
Read More about UCLA Law professor John Villasenor discusses school’s Institute for Technology, Law and PolicyPenn Law Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition opens 2021 Public Interest Fellowship program
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Each year, the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC)’s Public Interest Fellowship program funds internships with public interest or government organizations doing work relevant to CTIC’s focus on technology policy, intellectual property, cyber law, privacy, and related fields.
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ABA JOURNAL — The use of facial recognition technology with the remote bar exam could have an unlawful disparate impact on test-takers who are women or people of color, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote in a Feb. 10 demand letter, which was sent to the State Bar of California.
Read More about Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law seeks to stop California’s use of facial recognition technology for its online bar examUC Berkeley Law professor Catherine Crump and Rebecca Wexler author research on surveillance technology and law enforcement
UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — President Joe Biden’s new administration has already outlined a long list of early priorities. With help from a science- and technology-focused think tank, Berkeley Law Professors Catherine Crump and Rebecca Wexler are pushing forward their policy ideas.
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THE HARVARD CRIMSON — Researchers at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and International Human Rights Clinic collaborated with three human rights organizations based in Myanmar to produce a study on internet restrictions in Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to a white paper the groups published last month.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — We Robot, the yearly interdisciplinary conference on the legal and policy questions relating to robots, unites those on the front lines of robot design, development, and deployment with legal policy makers and influencers in the legal and social structures in the robotic sphere.
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ABA JOURNAL — Arizona’s court system will begin utilizing Thomson Reuters’ cloud-based court exhibit and evidence sharing platform to assist with the handling of digital evidence across the state, it was announced Wednesday. The Digital Evidence Center tool will be helpful as most court hearings are held virtually due to COVID-19.
Read More about Arizona court system adopts cloud-based exhibit and evidence sharing platform to assist with virtual hearingsHofstra Law hosts Legal Innovation Tournament to develop apps that help serve underrepresented populations in dispute resolution
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — The goal of interdisciplinary tournament was to develop apps that help serve the underrepresented and change the face of dispute resolution. Law students were matched with legal experts in the areas of dispute resolution and access to justice, as well as Hofstra computer science students to help develop ideas.
Read More about Hofstra Law hosts Legal Innovation Tournament to develop apps that help serve underrepresented populations in dispute resolutionUSC Gould Law Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic helps startup provide protective equipment for health care workers
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — During the COVID-19 pandemic, students in USC Gould’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic (IPTLC) advised Get Us PPE, a nonprofit startup based in Massachusetts that distributes donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals across the country.
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