MLPSC 2021 Program

January 8, 2021

8:30 a.m. ET/1:30 p.m. GMT – “Let’s Get Going” Coffee Social 

10 a.m. ET/3 p.m. GMT – Session #1

• Beatriz Botero Arcila, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, The Role of Local Government in Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy
• Andres Calderon, Law Professor, Universidad del Pacifico, A duty to moderate (or not): A comparative consumer protection approach to intermediary liability
• Erin Coyle, Associate Professor, Temple University (Media and Communication), Expanding Protection for Sex-Crime Complainants’ Privacy in the Twenty-First Century: A Legal Analysis of State Attempts to Shield Crime Reporters from Identification
• Sari Mazzurco, PhD Candidate, Yale Law School, Democratizing Platform Privacy

12 p.m. ET/5 p.m. GMT – Session #2

• Jonathan Anderson, PhD student, University of Minnesota (JMC), The Paradox of Public Records Litigation: An Empirical Analysis
• Rodrigo Cetina Presuel, Researcher, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School and Executive Director, RCC at Harvard, The False Universalization of Freedom of Expression Online: How Social Media Platforms and Nation-States Reinforce Digital Colonialism by imposing Standard Interpretations on Freedom of Expression at a Global Scale
• Amanda Reid, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina (JMC), ISPs and Takedown Procedures for Repeat Infringers
• Paola Ricuarte,  Professor, University Tecnologico de Monterrey (Education and Humanities), Decolonizing AI: Bridging the Epistemic Gap

3 p.m. ET/8 p.m. GMT – Session #3

• Margaret Kwoka, Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Saving the Freedom of Information Act
• Angela Moreno, Director, Graduate School of Law, Universidad Andres Bello, The Right to be Forgotten in the U.S. and Europe
• Anjali Vats, Associate Professor, Boston College (Communication), Reading Prince Racially
• Nikolas Guggenberger, Lecturer, Yale Law School, Online speech and the Attention Tragedy
• RonNell Andersen Jones, Professor, University of Utah Law School, and Sonja R. West, Professor, University of Georgia Law School, The Supreme Court and The Press: An Empirical Analysis

5 p.m. ET/10 p.m. GMT – Session #3

• Deborah Dwyer & Kriste Patrow, PhD students, University of North Carolina (JMC), Refocusing the Lens on Mugshot Legislation: Newsworthiness and Practical Obscurity
• Anthony Fargo, Associate Professor, Indiana University (Media), Revisiting Vincent Blasi’s Pathological Perspective: Are We Living in the Worst of Times for the First Amendment?
• Muira McCammon, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania (Communication), One Nation Under COVID
• Kelli Moore, Assistant Professor, New York University (Media/Culture/Comm), Information Escrows & #MeToo

6:30 p.m. ET/11:30 p.m. GMT – “See You Next Year” Coffee Social