University of Colorado Law hosts Congressional hearing on tech company regulation

January 28, 2020

CU BOULDER TODAY — Members of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hosted their first field hearing in a decade in the University of Colorado Law School’s Wittemyer Courtroom.

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Santa Clara Law professor Colleen Chien testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee on improving patent quality

January 27, 2020

IPWATCHDOG — October 30, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property heard from five witnesses on ways to improve patent quality at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Subcommittee subsequently posed questions to the witnesses, including professors Colleen Chien, R. Polk Wagner, and Melissa Wasserman, to supplement their testimony. Those witnesses have

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Penn State Dickinson Law sponsors international privacy and technology workshop

January 21, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State’s Dickinson Law, the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) and Monash University have joined together to sponsor the “Privacy, Technology and Vulnerability Workshop,” which will be held at Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy on June 22-23. The invitation-only workshop will create a platform for discovering

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Podcast: Northwestern Law professor Dan Rodriguez discusses the future of legal innovation and legal education

January 21, 2020

LEGAL TALK NETWORK — They discuss Dan Rodriguez’s work within the legal education sphere, including his drive towards innovation and his efforts to facilitate connections between legal education and the broader legal community before turning the conversation more broadly to the future of legal innovation, the need for regulatory changes, improving access to justice, the

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Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford co-leads study on global competition laws and enforcement practices

December 27, 2019

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Columbia Law School Professor Anu Bradford and University of Chicago Law School Professor Adam Chilton have released the world’s most comprehensive collection of competition laws and enforcement practices to date, providing researchers, lawyers, journalists, and policymakers with new tools to assess the economic impact of these laws across borders.

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Fordham Law professor Olivier Sylvain publishes essay on technology regulatory reform in Columbia Law Review

December 27, 2019

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Professor Olivier Sylvain‘s essay was published in the Columbia Law Review and argues that any reform should treat social media companies as commercial businesses that focus mainly on optimizing for advertisers.

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Harvard Law Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society creates database to tackle falsified court orders

December 27, 2019

HARVARD LAW TODAY  — Research using the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society’s Lumen database shows the problem is larger than previously understood. Through Lumen — an online database of takedown requests related to online content, containing approximately eleven million notices referencing over four billion URLs — Volokh was able to access thousands of relevant

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University of Missouri Law professor Amy J. Schmitz participates in roundtable on augmented intelligence with National Center for State Courts

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Amy J. Schmitz was one of a small group at an invite-only roundtable on “Augmented Intelligence (AI) in the Courts” with the National Center for State Courts. Specifically, the discussions focused on how AI is transforming and will continue to transform law, including courts.

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Northwestern Law professor Dan Linna launches cross-disciplinary class on emerging legal technology

December 18, 2019

BLOOMBERG LAW — The legal market is a topic Hammond is interested in since he and Northwestern law professor Dan Linna this year launched a cross-disciplinary class—made up of law students and computer science whizzes—that tackles problems brought in from real law firms like Mayer Brown.

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