Research Programs
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
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Platforms and the Right to Information
April 18, 2024
At a time of growing concern regarding platform power, what kinds of claims can we make to access platform data? If we allow access, how…
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Harvard x Creators: Making Evidence-Based Public Health Information Viral (RSM Speaker Series)
April 18, 2024
The $16 billion influencer marketing industry is often seen as churning out viral videos exclusively for profit. Now imagine if we used that same playbook…
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IP expert Gary R. Greenstain says Taylor Swift singlehandedly shifted copyright considerations by recording "Taylor's Version" of her early albums.
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Harvard Law School celebrates the Caselaw Access Project and its efforts to transform justice with the digitization of millions of pages of case law.
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Minow, Abella discuss algorithmic fairness and the US justice system
February 29, 2024
Harvard Law experts Martha Minow and Rosalie Abella argue that predictive algorithms and AI could amp up and amplify existing inequities.
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A new initiative by metaLAB (at) Harvard teaches educators how to integrate AI into their pedagogy.
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Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
January 17, 2024
HLS Beyond Presents: Professor Martha Minow joins co-authors Stobo Sniderman (SJD candidate) and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) in a discussion of their award-winning and bestselling…
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IP expert Ruth Okediji discusses Biden administration’s ‘march-in’ proposal to target high drug prices
January 5, 2024
Harvard Law School Professor Ruth Okediji says that while the Biden administration’s proposal to use federal ‘march-in’ rights to lower drug costs is an important development, it may be more a signal than the initiation of a workable plan.
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At Harvard Law, African leaders discuss growth, development and AI against a backdrop of global underrepresentation
November 30, 2023
Nigeria’s UN Ambassador Abiodun Richards Adejola and Dr. Victor Oladokun, a senior African Development Bank Group adviser, discussed multilateral challenges and opportunities at a recent event.
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Matthew D. Pekoske LL.M. ’24, leading at sea and in the law
November 8, 2023
Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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Even war has rules, so why none for espionage?
October 20, 2023
Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.
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Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center announce new initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
July 17, 2023
Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society have announced a new Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (IAIL), directed by Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein.
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Alice Hu has been elected president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, an organization founded in 1981 to represent and support Asian Pacific American law students.
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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”
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An interactive, multisite exhibition in Lawrence, Kansas called “How the Light Gets In,” co-created by metaLAB (at) Harvard, highlights the sentiments of formerly incarcerated women in a 360-degree immersive environment, and also encourages visitors to contribute their own words of wisdom.
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This year, Jonathan Zittrain and Jordi Weinstock published Torts! Third Edition as the first in their Open Casebook series of high-quality, low-cost text books designed to make these primary texts affordable to law students across the United States.
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The exhibition, organized by metaLAB, reflected on the many ways social media influences our lives and the world around us — for good or for ill.
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Susan Hendrickson ’93, the new executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, recently spoke with Harvard Law Today about her career path, her advice for law students, what keeps her up at night and why, nevertheless, she continues to be optimistic about tech.
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The Institute for Rebooting Social Media announces its inaugural cohort of visiting scholars
April 8, 2022
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has announced its Institute for Rebooting Social Media’s inaugural cohort of Visiting Scholars.
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Algorithm nation
March 14, 2022
A Harvard Law School reading group debates how the law should manage self-driving cars, A.I.-generated art, and other algorithmic technology.