Scholarship
The Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law is a leading academic center dedicated to exploring the intersection of law, technology, and policy. The Tech Institute is a hub for policymakers, academics, advocates, and technologists to study and discuss how to center humans and the social good, using technology as a tool. With the leading academic program for law and technology in the United States, we also foster interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex technology law and policy problems. The Tech Institute also identifies and creates opportunities for technology to improve access to justice.
The Tech Institute has nearly 20 full-time Georgetown faculty advisors, each engaged in scholarship and instruction on technology-relevant issues such as intellectual property, privacy, security, and innovation. Their work can be accessed in this repository.
2025
- The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas, John Barrios, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti & Luigi Zingales
- Internet Law: Cases and Materials, Anupam Chander
- Selective Enforcement, Kristelia García
- Fairer Public Benefit in Copyright Law, Amanda Levendowski Tepski
- On the Rival Nature of Data: Tech and Policy Implications, Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Katrina Ligett & Kobbi Nissim
- Class Relations and the Law: A Model and Agenda for Research, Brishen Rogers
- Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law, Brian Dean Abramson with James M. Beck, Sonali Gunawardhana, Denise M. Hill, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Ana Santos Rutschman, Peter O. Safir & John R. Thomas
- The Generation of Maladies: The U.S. Tech Giants, David Vladeck
- Deterring Unenforceable Terms, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
- The Deletion Remedy, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
2024
- Bugs In Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning, Harold Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Jon Callas, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L Rivest, Jeffrey I Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Vanessa Teague, Carmela Troncoso
- Internet Law: Cases and Materials, Anupam Chander
- Teaching Patience: Why Law Students Need to Slow Down and How to Help Them Do It, Erin C. Carroll
- From Isolation To Identification, Giuseppe D’Acquisto, Aloni Cohen, Maurizio Naldi & Kobbi Nissim
- Taxing Collusion, Kristelia García
- Feminist Cyberlaw, Amanda Levendowski & Meg Leta Jones
- Credit Attribution and Stable Compression, Kobbi Nissim
- Data Reconstruction: When You See It and When You Don’t, Kobbi Nissim
- Properties of Effective Information Anonymity Regulations, Kobbi Nissim
- Focusing on Fine-Tuning: Understanding the Four Pathways for Shaping Generative AI, Paul Ohm
- Focusing Privacy Law, Paul Ohm
- The Ethics of Acting Covertly, Mitt Regan
- Emotion, Ethics, and Military Virtues, Mitt Regan & Kevin Mullaney
- Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict: The Challenge to Liberal Democracies, Mitt Regan & Aurel Sari
- Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure: Cases, Materials, Problems, E. Thomas Sullivan, Herbert Hovenkamp, Howard A. Shelanski & Christopher R. Leslie
- Intellectual Property After George Floyd, Madhavi Sunder
- Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures, Madhavi Sunder & Haochen Sun
- Pharmaceutical Patent Law, John R. Thomas & Christopher Holman
2023
- Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict, Claire Finkelstein, Christopher J. Fuller, Jens David Ohlin & Mitt Regan
- Building on What Works: An Analysis of U.S. Broadband Policy, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein & Howard A. Shelanski
- Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State, Anupam Chander & Haochen Sun
- Internet Law: Cases and Materials, Anupam Chander
- The Emperor’s New Copyright, Kristelia García
- Governance Seams, Brett Frischmann & Paul Ohm
- From Armed Conflict to Countering Threat Networks: Counterterrorism and Social Network Analysis, Todd Huntley & Mitt Regan
- We Need to Focus on How Our Data Is Used, Not Just How It Is Shared, Katrina Ligett & Kobbi Nissim
- Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten, Meg Leta Jones
- The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy, Meg Leta Jones
- Doquet: Differentially Oblivious Range and Join Queries with Private Data Structures, Lina Qiu, Georgios Kellaris, Nikos Mamoulis, Kobbi Nissim & George Kollios
- Private Everlasting Prediction, Kobbi Nissim
- Black-Box Differential Privacy for Interactive ML, Kobbi Nissim
- Legacy Switches: A Proposal to Protect Privacy, Security, and the Environment from the Internet of Things, Paul Ohm & Nathaniel Kim
- Fact and Friction: A Case Study in the Fight Against False News, Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Paul Ohm & Ashwin Ramaswami
- Tech Support: Wiring Technology Law Clinics to Serve Racial Justice, Laura Moy
- Hatch-Waxman’s Renegades, John R. Thomas
- The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States, Filippo Lancieri, Eric A. Posner & Luigi Zingales
- The Economics of US Healthcare: Competition, Innovation, Regulation and Organizations, Craig Garthwaite, Filippo Lancieri, Matt Notowidigdo, Fiona Scott Morton & Luigi Zingales
- Judicial Response to the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Carl Shapiro & Howard Shelanski
- Capitalist Development, Labor Law, and the New Working Class, Brishen Rogers
- Data and Democracy at Work: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class, Brishen Rogers
- International Law and the Humanization of Warfare, Mitt Regan
2022
- Academic Brands: Distinction in Global Higher Education, Mario Biagioli & Madhavi Sunder
- Section 230 and the International Law of Facebook, Anupam Chander
- Internet Law: Cases and Materials, Anupam Chander
- Trump v. TikTok, Anupam Chander
- Pay-to-Playlist: The Commerce of Music Streaming, Christopher Buccafusco & Kristelia García
- The Telecommunication Acts at Twenty-Five: The Debate Looking Forward, Howard Shelanski
- Designing Remedies for Digital Markets: The Interplay between Antitrust and Regulation, Filippo Lancieri & Caio Mário S. Pereira Neto
- Narrowing Data Protection’s Enforcement Gap, Filippo Lancieri
- The Sample Complexity of Distribution-Free Parity Learning In the Robust Shuffle Model, Kobbi Nissim & Chao Yan
- Drone Strike, Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing, Mitt Regan
- Accountability for Covert Action in the United States and the United Kingdom, Mitt Regan & Michele Poole
- Professional Responsibility: Problems and Materials, Thomas D. Morgan, John S. Dzienkowski & Mitt Regan
- Assembly-Line Plaintiffs, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
- Class Action Boundaries, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
- National Security Intelligence and Ethics, Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan & Patrick F. Walsh
2021
- Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law, Brian Dean Abramson with Dorit Reiss, Peter O. Safir & John R. Thomas
- Seeking the Source: Criminal Defendants’ Constitutional Right to Source Code, Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Susan Landau & Brian Owsley
- Applying International Economic Law to Artificial Intelligence, Anupam Chander & Noelle Wurst
- Accountability for Targeted Killing, Mary B. DeRosa & Mitt Regan
- Sharing Technology and Vaccine Doses to Address Global Vaccine Inequity and End the COVID-19 Pandemic, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Lawrence O. Gostin & Madhavi Sunder
- Competition in Digital Markets: A Review of Expert Reports, Filippo Lancieri & Patricia Morita Sakowski
- George Stigler: 50 Years Later, Filippo Lancieri, Luigi Zingales, Jana Kaspervic & Asher Schechter
- O diálogo institucional entre agências reguladoras e os diferentes poderes: algo muda com a Lei, Caio Mário da Silva Pereira Neto, Mateus Piva Adami & Filippo Lancieri
- Principles of Trademark Law, Roger E. Schechter & John R. Thomas
- Preventive Criminal Law: Terrorist Crimes and Liberal Democratic Values, Mitt Regan & Alexandra White
- BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm, Mitt Regan & Lisa H. Rohrer
- Water Jurisdiction: On Federalism, River Basins, Metropolises, and Communities, Francine van den Brandeler & Filippo Maria Lancieri
- The Erosion of Equity and the Attack on the FTC’s Redress Authority, David C. Vladeck
2020
- The Chicago School’s Limited Influence on International Antitrust, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton & Filippo Maria Lancieri
- Election Integrity and Technology: Vulnerabilities and Solutions, Matt Blaze
- Work Law: Cases and Materials, Marion G. Crain, Pauline T. Kim, Michael Selmi & Brishen Rogers
- Copyright and Economic Viability: Evidence from the Music Industry, Kristelia García, James Hicks & Justin McCrary
- Monetizing Infringement, Kristelia García
- Super-Statutory Contracting, Kristelia García
- Tool for Surveillance or Spotlight on Inequality? Big Data and the Law, Rebecca A. Johnson & Tanina Rostain
- An Americans Guide to GDPR, Margot Kaminski & Meg Leta Jones
- Cookies: A Legacy of Controversy, Meg Leta Jones
- Comparing Consent to Cookies: A Case for Protecting Non-Use, Meg Leta Jones & Jenny Lee.
- Practicing Privacy on Other Networks: Identification Protocols, Standards, and Strategies Before Cookies, Meg Leta Jones & Kevin Ackermann
- Towards a Layered Approach to Relevant Markets in Multi-Sided Transaction Platforms, Caio Mário S. Pereira Neto & Filippo Lancieri
- Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?, Brishen Rogers
- The Law and Political Economy of Workplace Technological Change, Brishen Rogers
- Antitrust Enforcement, Regulation, and Digital Platforms, William P. Rogerson & Howard Shelanski
- What Makes OIRA Work: A Commentary on Jim Tozzi’s “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future”, Howard Shelanski
- Fighting Fundamentalism with Pluralism: Technologies of Enlightenment During the Arab Spring, Madhavi Sunder
2019
- Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure: Cases, Materials, Problems, E. Thomas Sullivan, Herbert Hovenkamp, Howard A. Shelanski & Christopher R. Leslie
- Basic Income and the Resilience of Social Democracy, Brishen Rogers
- Dancing on the Grave of Copyright?, Anupam Chander & Madhavi Sunder
- Did Bristol-Myers Squibb Kill the Nationwide Class Action?, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
- Digital Protectionism? Antitrust, Data Protection, and the EU/US Transatlantic Rift, Filippo Maria Lancieri
- The Development of Consent to Computing, Meg Leta Jones
- The Internet of Things: Both Goods and Services, Anupam Chander
- Analyzing the Legal Roots and Moral Core of Digital Consent, Elizabeth Edenberg & Meg Leta Jones
- The Many Revolutions of Carpenter, Paul Ohm
- Pharmaceutical Patents, John R. Thomas
- The Privacy Blanket of the Shuffle Model, Kobbi Nissim
- Principles of Patent Law, Roger E. Schechter & John R. Thomas
- A Reconsideration of Copyright’s Term, Kristelia A. García & Justin McCrary
- Social Media and Worker Organizing Under US Law, Brishen Rogers
2018
- Cases and Materials on Patent Law, Martin J. Adelman, Randall R. Rader, and John R. Thomas
- Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law, Brian Dean Abramson, John R. Thomas, and Peter O. Safir
- The Battle to Define Asia’s Intellectual Property Law: From TPP to RCEP, Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder
- Who Wants a Right to Be Forgotten? Predicting American Support for Digital Erasure, Leticia Bode and Meg Leta Jones
- Comparative Ethics of Computing Without Consent, Meg Leta Jones
- Does Technology Drive Law? The Dilemma of Technological Exceptionalism in Cyberlaw, Meg Leta Jones
- AI and the Ethics of Automating Consent, Meg Leta Jones, Ellen Kaufman, and Elizabeth Edenberg
- Silencing Bad Bots: Global, Legal, and Political Questions for Mean Machine Communication, Meg Leta Jones
- Architect of the Modern King Hall, Madhavi Sunder
- Introductory Remarks, Festschrift in Honor of Professor Lesley McAllister, Madhavi Sunder
- Clustering Algorithms for the Centralized and Local Models, Kobbi Nissim
- Antitrust and Deregulation, Howard A. Shelanski
- Desirable Inefficiency, Paul Ohm and Jonathan Frankle
- Regulating at Scale, Paul Ohm
- Forthright Code, Paul Ohm
- Debate: We Need to Protect Strong National Borders on the Internet, Jennifer Daskal, Paul Ohm, and Pierre de Vries
- The Myth of Platform Neutrality, Anupam Chander and Vivek Krishnamurthy
- The Frontier Within: Thoughts on Carrier & Minniti, John R. Thomas
- Government Speech and the First Amendment, David C. Vladeck
2017
- The Romance of the Public Domain, Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder
- Ready to Forget: American Attitudes toward the Right to be Forgotten, Leticia Bode and Meg Leta Jones
- The Right to a Human in the Loop: Political Constructions of Computer Automation & Personhood, Meg Leta Jones
- Playing with the Data: What Legal Scholars Should Learn About Machine Learning, David Lehr and Paul Ohm
- The Law of Look and Feel, Peter Lee and Madhavi Sunder
- Practical Locally Private Heavy Hitters, Kobbi Nissim
- Private Incremental Regression, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Kobbi Nissim, and Hongxia Jin
- The Investigative Dynamics of the Use of Malware by Law Enforcement, Paul Ohm
- Protecting Concerted Action Outside the Union Context, Brishen Rogers and Simon Archer
- Robots Versus Lawyers: A User-Centered Approach, Tanina Rostain
2016
- Teaching Patience: Why Law Students Need to Slow Down and How to Help Them Do It, Erin C. Carroll
- Algorithmic Stability for Adaptive Data Analysis, Raef Bassily, Kobbi Nissim, Adam Smith, Thomas Steinke, Uri Stemmer, and Jonathan Ullman
- We Couldn’t Kill the Internet If We Tried, Paul Ohm
- The Investigative Dynamics of the Use of Malware by Law Enforcement, Paul Ohm
- Employment Rights in the Platform Economy: Getting Back to Basics, Brishen Rogers
- Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem, Brishen Rogers
- Libertarian Corporatism Is Not an Oxymoron, Brishen Rogers
- Redefining Employment for the Modern Economy, Brishen Rogers
- Three Concepts of Workplace Freedom of Association, Brishen Rogers
- The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age, Laura K. Donohue
- Pro-competition Rules in Airport Privatization: International Experience and the Brazilian Case, Caio Mário da Silva Pereira Neto, Paulo Leonardo Casagrande, Filippo Maria Lancieri, and Joaquim Nogueira Porto Moraes
- Alguns apontamentos sobre programas de compliance antitruste focados em condutas unilaterais no Brasil [Some Perspectives on Antitrust Compliance Programs Focused on Unilateral Conducts in Brazil], Caio Mário S. Pereira Neto and Filippo Lancieri
- Facilitating Competition by Remedial Regulation, Kristelia A. García
- Adaptive Learning with Robust Generalization Guarantees, Kobbi Nissim
- Generic Attacks on Secure Outsourced Databases, Georgios Kellaris, George Kollios, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam O’Neill
- Mechanism Design and Differential Privacy, Kobbi Nissim and David Xiao
- Simultaneous Private Learning of Multiple Concepts, Mark Bun, Kobbi Nissim, and Uri Stemmer
- Consumer Protection in an Era of Big Data Analytics, David C. Vladeck