The Work
We are proud of this non-exhaustive library of contributions that our faculty and students have made to policy discussions and live controversies in tech policy.
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Scholarship
Reinventing Cambridge Analytica One Good Intention at a Time
In this essay for Lawfare, Prof. Bambauer describes how Europe’s new Digital Markets Act, which is intended to increase competition among digital services companies, is on a collision course with
Comment to the Federal Trade Commission Re: Accountable Tech Petition for Rulemaking to Prohibit Tailored Advertising
This comment, coauthored by Prof. Jane Bambauer, addresses Accountable Tech’s Petition asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to initiate a rulemaking to prohibit tailored advertising as an unfair method of competition. We make five main points that cast serious doubt on the wisdom and viability of such a rulemaking. First,
Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
The Atlantic (April 25, 2020) In this provocative essay, Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods argue that American tech firms’ mission to export First Amendment values to the rest of the world was a misguided failure.
Conversations with Faculty
Books
Dobbs on Economic and Dignitary Torts
This acclaimed Economic and Dignitary Torts casebook has been completely revised to include the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage in the field. The new edition includes hundreds of recent cases that illustrate important contemporary contexts such as the problem of defamation on the Internet; the application of common law privacy
Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Problem
Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Problem offers a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of cybersecurity from legal, business, economic, and technical perspectives. This textbook provides an interdisciplinary introduction to each of these fields that is at once accessible to students and teachers from each but sophisticated enough to be useful to those
Policy Papers
Reinventing Cambridge Analytica One Good Intention at a Time
In this essay for Lawfare, Prof. Bambauer describes how Europe’s new Digital Markets Act, which is intended to increase competition among digital services companies, is on a collision course with
Comment to the Federal Trade Commission Re: Accountable Tech Petition for Rulemaking to Prohibit Tailored Advertising
This comment, coauthored by Prof. Jane Bambauer, addresses Accountable Tech’s Petition asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to initiate a rulemaking to prohibit tailored advertising as an unfair method of competition. We make five main points that cast serious doubt on the wisdom and viability of such a rulemaking. First,
In the Media
When Platforms Do the State’s Bidding, Who Is Accountable? Not the Government, Says Israel’s Supreme Court
Daphne Keller, When Platforms Do the State’s Bidding, Who Is Accountable? Not the Government, Says Israel’s Supreme Court, Lawfare (February 7, 2022) (citing Derek Bambauer’s work).