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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...

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 Innume...

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...

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...

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 wo...

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...

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, an...

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 biomet...

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 Professo...

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 Sch...

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 La...

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...

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 Lear...

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 Comme...

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 in...

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 mis...

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...

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 Block...

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 i...

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...

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 pris...

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....

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 capaci...