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This is the final episode of six in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Professor Shari Diamond from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Professor Richard Lempert from the University of Michigan Law School present on “How Experts View the Legal System's Use of Scientific Evidence.” Their work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.

This is the fifth episode of six in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Chancellor and Dean of UC Law San Francisco, David Faigman, present on “Judicial Innumeracy.” His work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.

This is the fourth episode of six, in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Professor Maura Grossman from Osgoode Hall Law School present on “Judicial Approaches to Acknowledged and Unacknowledged AI Generated Evidence.” Professor Grossman collaborated on this work with Judge Paul Grimm of Duke Law School, who was unable to join today. Their work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.

This is the third episode of six in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Professor Valrie Hans from Cornell Law School present on “Juries Judging Science.” Her work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.  

This is the second episode of six in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Professor Edith Beerdsen from Temple University Beasley School of Law present on “The Replication Crisis.” Her work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.

This is the first episode of six in the special “Symposium Edition Podcast” of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our symposium on “Judging Science,” which explores how the judiciary assesses and incorporates scientific and expert testimony in the US legal system.    Today, we are listening to Professor Edward Cheng from Vanderbilt Law School present on “Expert Histories.” His work will be published in the upcoming Vol. 26 No. 2, “Symposium Edition,” of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review in the spring.

This is part two in the STLR Podcast's series on "Biometric Data: Uses and Dangers." In part one, we spoke with Professor Matthew Kugler of Northwestern University's Prtizker School of Law about biometric data privacy issues, and legislative responses. In part two, we speak with Professor Andrew Murray of the London School of Economics about how AI affects our autonomy in the biometric context, and how accompanying harms can be mitigated by different regulatory approaches. Soundtrack by Diverse Music.

This is part one of two in the STLR Podcast's series on "Biometric Data: Uses and Dangers." In this episode we speak with Professor Matthew Kugler of Northwestern University's Prtizker School of Law about biometric data privacy issues, and legislative responses. In part two, we will speak with Professor Andrew Murray of the London School of Economics about how AI affects our autonomy in the biometric context, and how accompanying harms can be mitigated by different regulatory approaches. Soundtrack by Diverse Music.

This is the sixth and final episode in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."   Author: Alicia Solow-Niederman, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School Commentator: Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Moderator: Matthew Tracy, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24   A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the fifth episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Paul Ohm, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Commentator: Timothy Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Columbia Law School Moderator: Amanda Orbuch, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24   A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the fourth episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."   Author: Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, NYU School of Law Commentator: Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Moderator: Sarah Al-Shalash, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24 A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the third episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."   Author: Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony Commentator: Talia Gillis, Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School Moderator: Nancy Lu, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24 A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the second episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."   Author: Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School   Commentator: Matthew Sag, Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, Emory University School of Law   Moderator: Joshua Simmons, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis   A link to slides will be posted here when available.  

This is the first episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Paper Author: Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Commentator: Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Moderator: Abby Graegin, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24 A link to slides will be posted here when available. 

This week, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins STLR host Mariam Kamal to discuss the natonal security concerns surrounding Tiktok. Commissioner Carr was appointed to the FCC in 2018 by former President Donald Trump. Recently, Comissioner Carr wrote a letter to Apple and Google urging them to remove Tiktok from their app stores and testified in Congress about Tiktok's security threat. Before the interview, Mariam and co-host Ben Faber provide some background information on the Tiktok controversy and discuss why Comissioner Carr believes Tiktok is a threat to national security. 

This week, Professor Lynisse Pantin joins STLR host Mariam Kamal to discuss the startup ecosyem and the challenges that minorities face when starting a company. Professor Pantin is the founding director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at Columbia Law School and author of "The Wealth Gap and Racial Disparities in the Startup Ecosystem."

  Should social media companies continue to rely on ex post standards to regulate what their users post? Or should platforms look to free speech jurisprudence to make these determinations? Are these companies publishers entitled to free speech protections? Or are they just platforms primarily concerned with hosting their users' content?  As this debate goes on, Evelyn Douek thinks this framing misses the point. Douek, of Harvard Law School and the Knight First Amendment Foundation, argues that a free-speech paradigm gives social media entities a possibly undeserved amount of authority to shape domestic and international events. Instead of trying to draw the line between "good" and "bad" speech, she recommends a systems level ex ante regulatory in which online platforms are treated as bureaucratic agencies and regulated using administrative law norms such as accountability and transparency.  You can find more about Evelyn Douek's work on her website, and you can follow her on Twitter.   

For our next two episodes, STLR Conversations will be discussing where to start with the ever-growing call for regulation of social media. This week, Colin Stretch and Mariam Kamal discuss the former's path from working in the public sector as a judicial clerk to liaising with the public sector as general counsel of Facebook. This interview, conducted last semester, provides important context for understanding the regulatory opportunities and constraints facing internet platforms. 

This week, former-Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler joins STLR editor Mariam Kamal to discuss how he came to the FCC and what the future of technology regulations might look like in light of Frances Haugen's congressional testimony.  Follow STLR on Twitter: https://twitter.com/columbiastlr

STLR Conversations returns with an interview with Professor Thibault Schrepel. An associate professor at VU Amsterdam and a faculty affiliate of Stanford Law's CodeX Center, he and STLR's Jessica Hart discuss possible friction and synergies between antitrust enforcement and blockchain technology. Professor Schrepel develops these ideas into an innovative regulatory mechanisms in his new book Blockchain + Antitrust: The Decentralization Formula.  Professor Schrepel's academic profile: https://law.stanford.edu/directory/thibault-schrepel/ Blockchain + Antitrust publisher's page: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/blockchain-antitrust-9781800885523.html Follow STLR on Twitter: https://twitter.com/columbiastlr  

This episode features Julio Sharp-Wasserman, Former STLR Notes Editor, talking with Evan Mascagni about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs. A SLAPP is a non-meritorious lawsuit brought to retaliate against a defendant’s constitutionally-protected speech, or to silence a defendant from criticizing the plaintiff, even when such criticism is completely legal.   Evan Mascagni is the Policy Director of the Public Participation Project, which is working to get congress to pass a federal Anti-SLAPP statute.  Evan is a former attorney turned documentary filmmaker and First Amendment policy advocate.  Prior to moving to New York City and starting a film production company, Player Piano, he was an attorney with the California Anti-SLAPP Project, a public interest law firm and policy organization dedicated to fighting SLAPPs in California.  We’d love your help in making this podcast better. If you like what we’re doing, please subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d also love to hear from you. Please send us an email at STLRpodcast@gmail.com.   Links Discussed in the Show https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190319/10212841825/rep-devin-nunes-sues-internet-cow-saying-mean-things-about-him-online.shtml https://anti-slapp.org/ https://www.protecttheprotest.org/     Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. If you think you need legal assistance, consult a lawyer, not a podcast. Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")

This episode features Lloyd Lee, STLR Staffer, talking with Vivek Narayanadas and Andy Dale about changing spaces in data privacy in the US and abroad. We’d love your help in making this podcast better. If you like what we’re doing, please subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d also love to hear from you. Please send us an email at STLRpodcast@gmail.com. Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. If you think you need legal assistance, consult a lawyer, not a podcast.   Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")

This episode features Isha Agarwal, STLR Staffer, talking with Dr. Thomas Holland about DNA and the Fourth Amendment As DNA analysis becomes more ubiquitous in our lives and in the criminal justice system, it is important to examine the current legal landscape of abandoned evidence in the context of genetic data. Abandoned evidence has a long and rich judicial history, from Russian spies to prison barbers. But abandoned DNA may not fit so neatly into this mold under the Fourth Amendment, and as DNA analysis begins to come straight to our doorstep, we must also analyze what privacy protections we do and don't have. Dr. Holland’s article can be found in our most recent issue. To find that article, and all our content examining the intersection of science, technology, and the law, visit our website, STLR.org. We’d love your help in making this podcast better. If you like what we’re doing, please subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d also love to hear from you. Please send us an email at STLRpodcast@gmail.com. Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. If you think you need legal assistance, consult a lawyer, not a podcast. Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")

This episode features Sam Matthews, STLR Executive Submissions Editor, discussing the constitutionality of compulsory vaccine laws Professor Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law School.   ----   Vincent Racaniello is Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University. He has done laboratory research on viruses for over 30 years. Following on his belief that scientists must communicate their work to the public, he has co-authored a virology textbook, distributed videocasts of his virology lectures online, written a blog about viruses, and produced podcasts on viruses, parasites, bacteria, evolution, and immunology. His goal is to be Earth’s Virology Professor.   Professor Racaniello’s virology lectures can be found online at youtube.com/profvrr. His Podcasts can be found at microbe.tv, and his virology blog can be found at virology.ws.   ---   Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that he was a professor at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School.   He is the author of eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction.  His most recent books are: We the People:  A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Picador Macmillan) published in November 2018, and two books published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman). He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.   In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In January 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.   Dean Chemerinsky’s Essay, Compulsory Vaccination Laws are Constitutional, was published in 2016 by the Northwestern University Law Review. ---   To find all of our podcast episodes, and our other content content examining the intersection of science, technology, and the law, visit our website, STLR.org.   We’d love your help in making this podcast better. If you like what we’re doing, please subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d also love to hear from you. Please send us an email at STLRpodcast@gmail.com.   Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. If you think you need legal assistance, consult a lawyer, not a podcast.   Music by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon,” “First of May,” and "Ikea")

This episode features Jennifer Ange, STLR Staffer, talking with Dr. Moran Yemini about the freedom of speech in the new digital age. In his recent article published on STLR, Dr. Yemini argues that the digital age presents a new irony of free speech. The popular concept that the Internet promotes freedom of expression may be too simplistic. In his view, the Internet, while it strengthens our capacity of expression, also limits the liberty aspect of expression. Dr. Yemini received his Ph.D. in Law from the University of Haifa, where he is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber, Law & Policy. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech. Dr Yemini’s article THE NEW IRONY OF FREE SPEECH can be found in our most recent issue. To find that article, and all our content examining the intersection of science, technology, and the law, please visit our website, STLR.org.  We’d love your help in making this podcast better. If you like what we’re doing, please subscribe, rate, and give a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d also love to hear from you. Please send us an email at STLRpodcast@gmail.com. Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. If you think you need legal assistance, consult a lawyer, not a podcast. Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")

This episode features Sam Matthews, STLR Executive Submissions Editor, talking with Julio Sharp-Wasserman, about his recently published note on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents some online intermediaries, such as operators of websites, from being sued for the actions of third parties. For example, if someone uploads a defamatory video to YouTube, the person being defamed could sue the creator of the video, but couldn’t sue YouTube itself. Although many people argue that this law is what allows the internet to exist at all, Julio argues that, in the specific context of speech torts, there are other protections for online intermediaries, and the results of lawsuits against them might be the same, even if Section 230 didn’t exist. Julio’s article can be found in our most recent issue. To find that article, and all our content examining the intersection of science, technology, and the law, visit our website, STLR.org. Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")

The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (STLR) is starting a Podcast! This podcast will feature a mix of in-depth interviews with authors published in our journal and surveys of legal topics from industry experts. Our first episode will be released later this month. It will feature an interview with STLR note author Julio Sharp-Wasserman about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, possibly the most important law you may never have heard of. Listen to our introduction to learn more, and stay tuned to this feed for all of our episodes, coming soon!   Opening and Closing Themes by Jonathan Coulton ("The Future Soon" and "Ikea")