Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
The Institute for Technology Law & Policy hosted musician and activist Simon Tam, whose efforts to trademark his band name “The Slants” prompted a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Simon appeared in conversation with Tech…
When David E. McCraw, The New York Times’ deputy general counsel, came to the paper 17 years ago, most of the privacy issues he saw were fairly straightforward: People called him wanting stories about them taken off the Times’ website. The top request?
Georgetown Law Associate Dean and Professor Paul Ohm and Alexandra Givens, founding executive director of the Institute for Technology Law & Policy, have won a $36,000 grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) for their initiative…
On Tuesday, September 10, the Georgetown Climate Center was pleased to welcome technologist, investor, and philanthropist Bill Gates to the Georgetown Law campus for discussion with a panel of invited leaders from academia, civil society, finance, industry…
An April 2018 complaint filed by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation Communications & Technology clinic on behalf of clients Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) has resulted in…
“This is a moment that I look forward to every year…” said Dean William M. Treanor, as he welcomed incoming students to Georgetown Law on Thursday, August 29.
Today, new technologies are created faster than regulation can keep up — and the legal issues are not always easy to predict. Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy hosts an annual program for congressional staff to help address that gap. This year’s program, the Institute’s third such event, explored the business models, legal frameworks and real-world impact of new and emerging technologies.
Two months after the publication of its groundbreaking reports on the questionable use of police facial recognition technology in U.S. cities, Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology is back in the news. Records obtained by the Center —…
On July 9, Professor Angela Campbell, who directs the Institute for Public Representation’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in a hearing on “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World, chaired…
At Georgetown Law’s Washington, D.C., Alumni Luncheon on June 11, Alexandra Givens of the Institute for Technology Law & Policy hosted a conversation with John K. Delaney (L’88) on how technology is transforming society.