Get involved with the ISP! Apply for our 2025-26 roles:
1⃣ Resident Fellowship
2⃣ The Majority World Initiative (MWI)
3⃣ Wikimedia Initiative On Intermediaries and Information (WII)
Deadline for applications: Dec 18!
🔊 We are thrilled to welcome
@chinmayiarun
as our new Executive Director! Chinmayi, we would not be luckier to have you and look forward to working with you.
@YaleLawSch
@jackbalkin
🚨 CFP 🚨
How does propaganda work in the age of AI? We invite papers that study historical, contemporary and emerging questions of propaganda.
Submit abstracts for our international + interdisciplinary conference: "Propaganda and Emerging Technologies":
We're excited that
@NgoziOkidegbe
joins us as visiting fellow. An Assistant Prof of Law at
@CardozoLaw
, her recent research explores the ways in which the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impact racially marginalized communities. Welcome to ISP!
We’re hiring for our 2023-24 cohort of Resident Fellows
If you’re a recent graduate of a Law or PhD program and your work is related to any of the ISP research areas, you should apply!
Deadline: January 10, 2023
For more details and to apply:
A warm welcome back to
@arturpericles
, who joins us now as the Wikimedia fellow at
@YaleISP_WIII
! Formerly the head of research at
@internetlabbr
, Art's work focuses on platform governance, freedom of speech, privacy and data protection.
Are you a recent graduate of a law or PhD program interested in an academic career and working on the intersections of law, technology and society?
Apply to join the ISP as a resident fellow!
🚨 Join the ISP 🚨
Are you looking for a postdoc to work on issues at the intersection of law, technology and society?
Applications are now open for ISP resident fellowships for 2024-25!
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Please join us in congratulating our wonderful former Executive Director in his first week as Assistant Professor of Law at University of Houston Law Center
Out now! “A Healthy Digital Public Sphere”, the second collection in our Digital Public Sphere White Paper series (in collab with
@YJoLT
)
Edited by the wonderful
@Elibietti
@sebasguidi
&
@adam_posluns
Many thanks to
@KnightFdn
for supporting this series
🚨Launching Digital Future Whitepaper Series🚨
@jackbalkin
: Our goal is to create a venue for leading thinkers to tell us how new digital technologies are affecting law & society, & make recs for reform.
Just posted: "Nowhere to Hide" by our
@AndBurt
.
What role did mis-, dis-, malinformation play in
#Election2020
?
19 papers from all-star researchers share hot takes & analysis.
🚨Just out: paper series on News and Information Disorder in the 2020 Presidential Election w/
@knightfdn
🚨
@YaleLawSch
Our resident fellow
@Mehtabkn
is now the program director of the
@YaleISP_WIII
. Mehtab's research intersects Intellectual Property, Data Governance and AI Ethics, looking at mechanisms for governing data used to develop and deploy AI technologies. Congratulations and welcome!
🚨 We're hiring postdocs!
🫵 If you are a recent grad of a law or PhD program researching tech, law and society (we esp encourage applicants working on AI and the digital public sphere)...
✏️ Apply to our Resident Fellowship by December 15, 2023.
🚨Interested in law & tech, data, media, privacy, AI, or free speech?🚨
Apply for a
@yaleisp
Resident Fellowship and join a wonderful community of scholars
@YaleLawSch
!
We look forward to hearing from you.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2020.
Please share widely.
We’re thrilled to publish
@RKSlaughterFTC
’s “Algorithms and Economic Justice,” the latest in our Digital Future Whitepaper Series, in collaboration with
@YJoLT
.
@YaleLawSch
@FTC
On Oct 7, we're bringing together leading activists, journalists and academics to unpack the implications of
@WSJ
's huge Facebook Files expose! Register here:
cc
@YaleLawSch
@craignewmark
We're thrilled to welcome Ifeoma Ajunwa (
@iajunwa
) as an ISP Fellow! Assoc Prof of Law at
@unc_law
, founding director of
@AiDrProgram
&
@FulbrightPrgrm
fellow, she is currently researching tech startups in Nigeria. Her book The Quantified Worker is forthcoming with
@CambridgeUP
The ISP and the
@abramsinstitute
Condemn Police Violations of Protesters’ and Journalists’ First Amendment Rights; Call for Constitutional Protections for Protesters and the Press
Full text:
The wonderful conversations, panels, games, and muppetry we've enjoyed over the last two days wouldn't have been possible without our truly amazing organizing team. Many many thanks to Heather Branch and Natasha Rentas!
#ISP25
We're very excited for
@JameelJaffer
's talk tomorrow on "Press Freedom and the Assange Case"!
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 12:10pm ET in SLB 128
Co-hosted by
@YJoLT
cc
@knightcolumbia
🎂🎂🎂
Time flies, and we are about to turn 25! Ever been affiliated with
@yaleisp
? Come join
@jackbalkin
,
@chinmayiarun
, and the whole family for our 25th reunion in New Haven, 9/30 - 10/2!
🎂🎂🎂
🚨 ICYMI 🚨
Our Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference is this weekend!
📅 April 29 - 1, 2022
✉️ DM to register
Schedule:
Organized by
@abramsinstitute
Now online--the first episode of "Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours":
The History of Section 230
Eric Goldman,
@ericgoldman
Mary Anne Franks,
@ma_franks
Jeff Kosseff,
@jkosseff
- moderated by
@Klonick
We're starting our Fall 2022 Law & Technology speaker series with a bang! Don't miss
@sushmaraman
on "The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights"
Tuesday, September 13 at 12pm ET
Sterling Law Building 128
cc
@CarrCenter
@YaleLawSch
Welcoming new resident fellow Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi! Amin’s research spans legal & political philosophy, law & ethics of technology, private law theory, feminist jurisprudence and history of political thought. At ISP he will work on the regulation of data driven technologies.
🚨 ICYMI 🚨
Our Technologies of Deception conference is this weekend!
2⃣ Two days of presentations and panels on misinformation, fake news, robot deception, cryptocurrency, deepfakes, nanotargeting and lots more
🖊️Check out the schedule and register:
Get involved with the ISP!
1⃣ Apply for our 2024-25 resident fellowship (deadline: Dec 15)
2⃣ Submit a paper for our upcoming conference, "Propaganda and Emerging Technologies" (deadline: Nov 10 / Oct 30 if visa is required)
JOIN US! The ISP is accepting applications for four positions: Executive Director, Communications Fellow,
@YaleISP_WIII
Fellow, and Resident Fellow!
Learn more here:
Thinking about algorithmic enforcement? Automated decisionmaking? Then you should submit an abstract for
@yaleisp
's spring conference, "(Im)Perfect Enforcement!
Congratulations to our affiliated fellows (and former ED)
@LauraDeNardis
for being named one of "32 innovators who are building a better future" by
@WiredUK
! Well done and well deserved!
Thanks to Jeff Kosseff
@jkosseff
, Eric Goldman
@ericgoldman
, Mary Anne Franks
@ma_franks
, & Kate Klonick
@Klonick
for a great panel today on the History of Section 230! Join us again tomorrow - same time!
📺 This summer, we'll be sharing recordings of our Law & Tech talks online!
We're kicking off this series with
@geomblog
's brilliant talk "Reflections on the AI Bill of Rights, technology policy and the role of the academy" (from April 4, 2023)
Tomorrow at our Law & Tech speaker series! Our very own
@JulianPosada0
will present on "The Coloniality of Data Work"
Tuesday, February 21 at 12:10pm ET
DM for zoom
"We should have begun solving the problems of the digital age years ago. It’s time to catch up."
ISP director
@balkin
shares his thoughts on AI, the First Amendment, copyright and regulation.
Does artificial intelligence have First Amendment rights? Professor and
@yaleisp
founder
@jackbalkin
answers this and other questions on A.I. and the law.
🎉
#ISP25
🎉
We’re so excited to welcome everyone to New Haven tomorrow for our 25th anniversary reunion! Find the agenda here:
For ISP family members who can't make it in person, pls join us virtually for our five wonderful panels! DM for the zoom link
Today at our Ideas Lunch
@hartzog
&
@neilmrichards
on: "The Surprising Virtues of Data Loyalty." We would want to see fiduciary duties as a crucial part of a comprehensive privacy framework. Thanks so much for joining us!
cc
@NUSL
@WashULaw
@craignewmark
"The Prediction Society: AI and the Problems of Forecasting the Future"
We're looking forward to tomorrow's talk by
@HideyukiMATSUMI
(
@LSTSblog
) and
@DanielSolove
(
@gwlaw
)!
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 12:10pm ET
DM for zoom details
We’re getting started with “Platform Rules and Public Norms” with
@davidakaye
!
Tune in to the livestream:
We’ll be livetweeting highlights from the talk below 👇👇
At tomorrow's Ideas Lunch,
@akapczynski
draws on several largely-forgotten Supreme Court cases to tell a "public history of trade secrets". We're looking forward to it!
DM for link.
@YaleLawSch
@LPEblog
@craignewmark
Our Law & Technology speaker series is back for the spring semester!
Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET for
@mutalenkonde
on the barriers experts face when translating their research into policy recommendations
DM for zoom link
cc
@YaleLawSch
@craignewmark
@ai4theppl
Tomorrow! We're thrilled to have
@ellgood
(
@RutgersLaw
) join us to give a talk titled "Developing AI Accountability Policy: A View From the Field"
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 12:10pm ET
Cosponsored by
@YJoLT
DM for zoom details
🔢 DATA (RE)MAKES THE WORLD 🌐
March 31 - April 1, 2023 at Yale Law School
Join us for an interdisciplinary conference investigating the ways our quantification practices inform and reshape our values and our communities!
Register:
Thank you so much!
@RebeccaWexler
of
@BerkeleyLaw
presented "Privacy as Privilege: The Stored Communications Act and Internet Evidence": Reform evidentiary privileges, allow criminal def to subpoena tech platforms for exonerating evidence & more.
#VirtualCyberPolicy
Tomorrow
@vmsoutherland
presents on "The Intersection of Race and Algorithmic Tools in the Criminal Legal System". Don't miss it!
12pm ET, Tuesday March 1, 2022
DM for zoom details.
cc
@RaceNYU
@nyulaw
We're excited to welcome
@hartzog
(
@BU_Law
) to the ISP tomorrow for a talk on "Privacy Nicks: How the Law Normalizes Surveillance"
Tuesday, February 7 at 12:10pm ET
Co-hosted by
@YJoLT
DM for livestream details
Thanks to
@DrexelUniv
Assistant Prof. Hannah Bloch-Wehba
@HBWHBWHBW
(a
@yaleisp
alumna & former
@MFIAclinic
fellow!) for her very informative talk on content moderation of big tech platforms, policies in regulating global online speech, & evolving processes in automation.
Thanks so much to
@AINowInstitute
's Meredith Whittaker
@mer__edith
for her fascinating talk on "Who Gets to Know About AI?" & for the great conversation that ensued! & to
@YaleISP_WIII
for co-sponsoring
We're super excited for
@karen_ec_levy
's presentation at this week's Ideas Lunch: "RoboTruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work"
Thursday, September 1 2022 at 12pm ET
DM for zoom
Have you registered for our AI Governance Symposium yet? On November 12-13 we'll be discussing critical issues in understanding, regulating and developing AI technologies!
Check out the schedule and register:
cc
@YaleLawSch
@YaleISP_WIII
@craignewmark
Tomorrow, we're excited to welcome
@WWSchulz
(
@bredowinstitut
) to present "Hybrid Regulation - New Approaches to Govern Social Media Platforms Under the European Digital Services Act"
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 12:10pm ET
Co-hosted by Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
Tomorrow! ISP affiliated fellow
@tiffanycli
(
@UNHLaw
) joins us for a talk on "Algorithmic Destruction".
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 12:10pm ET
DM for zoom details
Thank you so much to
@IgnacioCofone
for a wonderful talk on “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy” at today's Law & Tech talk!
Congratulations to our ISP affiliated fellow Lucia Sommerer
@lwclmt
for being awarded the Körber Prize (one of Europe’s most prestigious PhD thesis awards) for her work on predictive policing, which was conducted in part with us at
@yaleisp
.
Next weekend we're bringing you two days of conversations on fake news, scam bots, nanotargeting, deepfakes and lots more as part of our Technologies of Deception conference!
📅 March 25-26, 2022 on Zoom
Check out the agenda and register:
We're so excited for tomorrow's Ideas Lunch! The brilliant
@FrankPasquale
(
@brooklynlaw
) will join us to present "Five Critiques of Affective Computing: Rethinking the Law and Policy of Emotion Attribution and Manipulation"
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 12pm ET
DM for zoom
A big thank you to
@ugasser
for a wonderful presentation of his new book, “Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI,” written with his co-author
@Viktor_MS
at today’s Ideas Lunch!
For next week's Law and Tech talk (co-hosted with
@YJoLT
),
@davidakaye
presents "Platform Rules and Public Norms" on how platforms are influencing public policy.
Tuesday, November 8 at 12:10pm ET
Join us in person or on the livestream:
Thrilled to share the news that I'll be joining
@yaleisp
as a Visiting Fellow next year (Spring term).
I'll be working on my research project on social media regulation and online gov' activities. Looking forward to meeting the ISP community!
What a treat to have
@ZephyrTeachout
of
@FordhamLawNYC
at
@yaleisp
's Ideas Lunch today on "The Crucial Elements of a Reform Agenda for Big Tech." We need a positive vision for a humane market economy and that incorporates Brandeisian and socialist elements, she argues. Thank you!