We had the opportunity to talk with @aliciasn.bsky.social (George Washington University Law) about inter-regime doctrinal collapse in #data governance and AI regulation, privacy, copyright, and standards collide, challenging courts and regulators. Read: spkl.io/63320A29hg#data #AI #Law

Aspiring privacy & tech law scholar? GW Law's Privacy and Technology Fellowship is open to candidates from clerkships, private practice, and beyond. Two years of mentoring, research support, and conference funding. Learn more: www.law.gwu.edu/privacy-and-... #LegalAcademia #FutureProfessors

Thank you to Prof. Stacy-Ann Elvy for the generous Jot of my forthcoming article!

Thank you for your engagement and generative questions and comments, and thank you for the invitation!

I'm fortunate to be headed to the ISP today for an Ideas Lunch on my paper, retitled "The Supply Chain is a Circle: Emergent Challenges, Privacy, and AI." Can't wait for feedback, community, and of course the silly question!

Crowdsourcing a nerdy, rather niche Q: Are there any databases of pending GenAI litigation that track which models are (not) involved in a case? Noticed today that the OpenAI MDL doesn't include GPT‑4V, GPT-4.5, or GPT-5 (as of Judge Stein's Oct. 27, 2025 Opinion & Order). Thanks for any leads!

I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....), was awarded an honorable mention in the 2026 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition. Congrats to the winner, Prof. Ela Leshem (Fordham) and the other honorable mention, Prof. Roberto Tallarita (Harvard)!

Worried about privacy issues created by human interactions with GenAI systems like OpenAI's new browser (especially w/ agentic capabilities)? My essay on AI's demand side offers a framework to analyze emergent challenges and pinpoint where to intervene for meaningful accountability, over time.

CFP: Looking to workshop your AI and accountability scholarship in an interdisciplinary environment? Details below on a fabulous upcoming opportunity (October 27 submission deadline).

For all the #privacy academics out there: In case you missed it, submissions are open for FPF's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) award! You have until Oct. 30 to submit the best privacy scholarship from the past year. ⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...

Check out the latest #research from the SSRN #blog which includes the top downloaded papers for Q3 on #AI in Law. Read More: spkl.io/63329ApUcX#research#blog#AI#Law #AcademicChatter

Join us for a discussion on @daniel-solove.bsky.social's newest book, 𝙊𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮. Panelists include: - margotkaminski.bsky.social - paulohm.bsky.social - aliciasn.bsky.social 📅 Thu, Sept. 25 | 🕓 4–5 PM 📍 Tasher Great Room, Jacob Burns Law Library 🔗 RSVP in comments

Privacy & AI PSA: As of Sept. 28, Anthropic's privacy policy requires users to opt out of data sharing, w/ a pre-checked box that defaults to sharing (e.g., you'll share your data to help train the model, unless you toggle off when you get the notice). Curious if EU folks have the same pop up?

I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, is forthcoming in Stanford Law Review! Draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

I’m excited to share my latest draft, developing a “demand side” theory of AI to complement the supply chain and focus on emergent human interactions in, out, and via GenAI systems. Comments welcome! Available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AI hivemind: Is anyone tracking updates to company privacy policies / GenAI ToS and whether there are correlations with legal and policy developments? Noticed a new Grok privacy policy on 4/25, and I'm wondering if it's a reaction to the Irish DPA or a signal of an upcoming product announcement.

Lawyers looking to make a difference, please consider: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b... (and I'm so proud of my sister for her hard work behind the scenes on this)

The FTC has long been structured as an independent agency, and Humphrey’s Executor remains good law. Firing its democratic commissioners is a blatantly unlawful move, calculated to disempower the agency that’s best-positioned to actually change business models and contend with AI and privacy harms.

New: @trahan.house.gov will announce today a push to modernize a 50-year-old federal privacy law in response to concerns that Elon Musk's DOGE is improperly accessing and potentially mishandling Americans' personal data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵 Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...

Call for papers: Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2025 (April 10-11, 2025). Please see announcement for details. docs.google.com/document/d/1... To apply to participate, comment, or present, please fill out the google form:( forms.gle/EyUghVd23tEB...). @emorylaw.bsky.social

I’m excited to share that my work “The Overton Window and Privacy Enforcement” has been selected as a recipient of the @futureofprivacy.bsky.social Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award, and honored to be in such amazing company!

TFW you're both unbelievably grateful for incisive feedback on a draft and also wondering how on earth you're going to revise to account for it.

It was such a privilege to contribute to the ongoing Balkinization Symposium on @ignaciocofone.bsky.social’s timely book! I argue that taking privacy and power seriously requires engaging with the messy politics of privacy: balkin.blogspot.com/2024/12/taki....

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

Random AM AI thought: Has anyone studied the way that different media outlets cover the same AI developments? Thinking here of conflicting WaPo & NYT headlines on the same study of doctors' use of Chat-GPT: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...) versus www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h....

Looking to supervise DPhil students on AI regulation or data protection at Oxford - particularly interdisciplinary or comparative law projects. Applications are open until January 29, with details here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/cour.... Please share with students who may be interested!

Thanks for the shoutout, @jvagle! AI changes social & economic costs of activities in ways that push longstanding legal assumptions about individual privacy & control past their breaking point. And +1 to @schneierblog that the connections b/t competition law/antitrust and privacy law are critical.

Great AI Snake Oil post on genAI lawsuits: www.aisnakeoil.com/p/generative.... As I argue in a forthcoming piece, “Do Cases Generate Bad AI Law?”, the thorniest issues entail mixed legal-social questions about how AI is regulating social affairs, arising from individualized private law claims. [1/2]

This is happening, and I couldn’t be more excited to work with Margot and Paul on this! Let’s go!

Crowdsourcing: does anyone have tips on how to adapt a clip-on mic to women's clothing? I need to use a lapel mic for my larger classes, but many of my professional outfits don't have pockets or collars in the way the tech assumes . . .

Interested in the broader social and legal impact of all of the recent generative AI lawsuits? I'm pleased to share a new draft, "Do Cases Generate Bad AI Law?," written as part of Columbia STLR's 2023 symposium. Abstract below; link to paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Really, really thankful to @willknight.bsky.social for covering this *critical* piece of the AI puzzle. It's something few would otherwise pay attention to, yet will affect everything that AI will become. Also great quotes from @ruchowdh.bsky.social & Yacine Jernite! www.wired.com/story/americ...

In less major but still pretty interesting news: FTC sues Rite Aid for reckless use of facial recognition surveillance www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

fun moments in class prep: that feeling when you realize that you should probably explain the Enron scandal to your students because a good number of them will be too young to know about it (*cues Miley Cyrus "Used to Be Young" and weeps quietly*)

Thrilled to announce GW Law's brand new Center for Law and Technology! I'm so lucky to be at an institution that's prioritizing this field, and excited to contribute to the future of privacy and tech law: www.law.gwu.edu/gw-law-launc...

Out now in preprint from our affiliated fellow Alicia Solow-Niederman: "The Overton Window and Privacy Enforcement" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Officially, Jerry Frug taught me contracts and local government law. Unofficially, he taught me legal realism and the importance of chasing after work that you love, even when inertia makes it easier to do something else. I'm so fortunate to have learned from him. hls.harvard.edu/today/in-mem...

I'm so looking forward to speaking at the 2023 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review symposium, "Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives," later this week. Please come join us if you're around NYC! RSVP here: forms.gle/Mq61vL7i7HEG....

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

AI/privacy folks: check out French DPA's public consultation process on AI datasets and initial statements on GDPR & AI. Worth following; a lot of what AI companies can do w/ data in the near term will turn on these kinds of interpretations of existing law. More here: www.cnil.fr/en/artificia....

Me and @amandaparsons.bsky.social in the @lpeblog.bsky.social today doing some *light* value theory to discuss the complex and messy ways that companies go about cultivating data's use value (prediction value) and converting it (or not!) into wealth (and power) -- and why all this matters legally

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

Tracking AI litigation? Check out this great database (h/t brilliant colleague Bob Brauneis, not on Bluesky): gwtoday.gwu.edu/database-gw-...

Looking forward to the first of the @yaleisp.bsky.social ‘s events this academic year. We’ll get to hear @scottjshapiro.bsky.social discussing ‘Fancy Bear Goes Phishing’.

Don't have a blog so I'm posting on SSRN: Do equitable legal remedies pose an existential threat to Generative AI? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As part of a year-long collaboration with @randomwalker.bsky.social, we’re publishing a dozen essays about "algorithmic amplification"—what it is, whether we should worry about it, what could be done to harness its benefits & mitigate its harms. knightcolumbia.org/blog/explori...

Savage Chickens doesn’t miss lol.

Law school faculty - James Grimmelmann compiled a list of inexpensive and open access casebooks