Professors Helen Nissenbaum and Katherine Strandburg
Spring 2017
Wednesdays, 2:10-4:00 pm, Furman Hall, Room 210
Thursdays, 5:00-6:50 pm, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LAW-LW.10930.001
3 credits
The Innovation Policy Colloquium focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity and invention.
This year, we will examine the topic of the law and economics of intellectual property. Starting with theories of intellectual property law, we will go on to review some of the latest IP law and econ scholarship.
The Colloquium has two components. Class readings will explore issues such as privacy, equity, reliability, innovation and transparency from a variety of perspectives -- societal, legal, ethical, political, and humanistic. Open Colloquium sessions will feature works-in-progress presented by an interdisciplinary slate of leading scholars. Interested faculty, researchers and alumni will be invited to attend these sessions. Readings and discussion prior to each presentation will prepare students to participate fully in these sessions. Each Colloquium student is required to write an independent research paper on some aspect of the "big data" issue.
Spring 2017 Schedule of Presenters
Wednesday, JANUARY 25
Foster Provost, Professor of Data Science and Information Systems, Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow, Information, Operations & Management Sciences Department, Stern School of Business
Guest Lecture: An Introduction to Data Science
Thursday, JANUARY 26
Cathy O’Neil, Data Scientist and Author
Guest Lecture: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Wednesday, FEBRUARY 1
Duncan Watts, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Founding Member, MSR-NYC lab
Guest Lecture: Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges
Thursday, FEBRUARY 16
Julia Angwin, Author, Dragnet Nation, Journalist, ProPublica
Algorithmic Accountability
Wednesday, MARCH 1 [Rescheduled from February 9]
Solon Barocas, Postdoc Researcher, Microsoft Research
Taking Explanation Seriously in Law and Machine Learning
Thursday, MARCH 2
Martha Poon, Research Affiliate, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Borrowing to Pivot – What can Microsoft tell us about the financing of the cloud?
Thursday, MARCH 9
Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS); Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Science Faculty, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
From Law as Information to Law as Computation
Thursday, MARCH 23 [Joint session with IILJ Colloquium]
The IILJ Colloquium “The International Law of Google” in cooperation with the Innovation Policy Colloquium will host Vijaya Gadde ’00, General Counsel & Director of Communications, Twitter, Inc. and member of the Board of Trustees of NYU Law for a conversation about social media, public discourse, and international law.
Thursday, APRIL 6
Matthew Connelly, Professor, Department of History, Columbia University
Can We Use Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to Identify State Secrets?
Thursday, APRIL 13
Elizabeth Joh, Professor of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law
The Undue Influence of Surveillance Technology Companies on Policing
Pending approval, 2 New York CLE credits in the Area of Professional Practice will be given to both experienced and newly attorneys (those admitted to the New York Bar for less than two years) and is presented in traditional (in person) format.
Questions about the Colloquium should be addressed to Nicole Arzt at nicole.arzt@nyu.edu or (212) 998-6013.