Technology and the Law: Examining and Addressing Bias | The 2021 JOSTL Symposium
Friday, February 19, 2021
Symposium Schedule (as of 2/18/21)
Zoom Links:
9:00 – 10:30am Welcome Remarks and Panel 1
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Panel 2
12:00 – 1:00 pm Informal Lunch Discussion
1:00 – 1:45 pm Keynote
2:00 – 3:15 pm Panel 3
3:30 – 5:00 pm Panel 4 and Closing Remarks
The growing movement for racial justice in the United States has illuminated ways the technologies and legal systems we use and rely upon are polluted by and further bias. Indeed, bias against non-male, non-white people is well-documented in artificial intelligence systems. This problem is not relegated to the technology industry or those most affected by systemic bias. For example, facial recognition technology remains largely unregulated. This is not due to a lack of necessity but a lack of understanding. While some cities around the country continue adopt facial recognition technologies, others, including most recently Boston, have instituted bans of the oft biased technology to better understand the systems and evaluate its risks and benefits before regulating it. This symposium will bring together scholars with expertise on issues of bias and discrimination in the contexts of law, computer science, public health, and political science in order to evaluate these issues from a cross-disciplinary perspective with a goal of fostering collaboration on articles for publication in an upcoming JOSTL issue.
Keynote:
Catherine D’Ignazio, MIT Urban Planning
Panelists:
Lindsey Barrett, Fritz Family Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center
Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
Bryan Choi, Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Sara Gerke, Research Fellow, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Michele Gilman, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Dan Ho, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Michael Karanicolas, Wikimedia Fellow, Yale Law School
Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Naomi Mann, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Mason Marks, Assistant Professor of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law
Elaine Nsoesie, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Liz O’Sullivan, Technology Director, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Scott Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law
Jessica Silbey, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Dr. Lucia Sommerer, Fellow, University of Göttingen
Charlotte Tschider, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Moderators:
Stacey Dogan, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Boston University School of Law
Tiffani Li, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Law
Chris Robertson, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
This event will be presented as a Zoom Webinar.
For questions about physical accessibility or to request a communication-related accommodation ( e.g. ASL Interpreters, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART); assistive listening devices; hearing or induction loops), please contact (lawevent@bu.edu). Please submit requests for accommodations as soon as possible, ideally no later than 10 business days prior to the event.