Emergent Technologies

Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”

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Abstract On the 16th of October 2020, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a number of videos posted on social media.[1] Yet, a law against publishing heinous content on line was approved in France on the 13th of May.[2] But in… Read more » about Working Paper 04-2021: Marcella Favale “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech, and Platforms”

Working Paper 03-2021: Roger Brownsword “Law, Authority, and Respect in Our Information Societies: Three Waves of Technological Disruption”

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Abstract In our information societies, we act, interact, and transact in environments that are located at various points on a spectrum running from offline (analogue) to online (digital). Typically, the more that we move away from offline environments, the more that technologies bear the regulatory load; and, concomitantly, the greater the range and intensity of… Read more » about Working Paper 03-2021: Roger Brownsword “Law, Authority, and Respect in Our Information Societies: Three Waves of Technological Disruption”