In the past quarter century, cyberlaw has grown from a nascent set of ideas about how to make legal sense of the newly-arrived Internet to a wide-reaching and cross-cutting field that intersects with nearly every contemporary policy domain. Yet the massive growth of the field often has obscured the important interplay between cyberspace and the people that make it up.
The symposium, held in celebration of the recently released volume Feminist Cyberlaw, will draw together scholars to comment on the critical involvement of impacted communities in access to and governance of modern digital spaces. A rich morning of broad, intersectional conversations will broach the role of historically marginalized communities in the contexts of telecommunications networks, internet platforms, data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
This event is open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members—no special expertise or technical background is necessary. If you’re curious about the Internet, who gets to participate in policymaking discussions, or equity in digital spaces, we hope you’ll join us for some or all of the event!
Sessions
Check In and Breakfast
@ Wolf Law Building: Foyer and Boettcher Hall
Attendees are welcome to check-in and enjoy a continental breakfast buffet before the day’s programming gets underway.
Welcome
@ Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom
- Blake E. Reid
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss
Dean and Provost’s Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Introduction
- Meg Leta Jones
Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Impacted Communities and Access to Telecommunications and Platforms
- Vivek Krishnamurthy — Moderator
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School - Casey Fiesler — Presenter
Associate Professor, Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder - Blake E. Reid — Presenter
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Gabrielle Daley — Panelist
Director of the Schaden Experiential Learning Program, University of Colorado Law School - Meg Leta Jones — Panelist
Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Presentation 1: Casey Fiesler, An Archive of Their Own: Feminist HCI and Values in Design
Presentation 2: Blake E. Reid, The Curb-Cut Effect and the Perils of Accessibility without Disability
Break
Impacted Communities and Governance of Data, Algorithms, and AI
- Harry Surden — Moderator
Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Margot Kaminski — Presenter
Professor, University of Colorado Law School - Ngozi Okidegbe — Presenter
Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law - Paul Ohm — Panelist
Professor of Law; Chief Data Officer, Georgetown University Law Center - Scott Skinner-Thompson — Panelist
Associate Professor, Colorado Law School
Presentation 1: Ngozi Okidegbe, Revisioning Algorithms as a Black Feminist Project
Presentation 2: Margot Kaminski, Impacted Stakeholder Participation in AI and Data Governance
Closing Remarks
- Blake E. Reid
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School