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Kaminski, Margot E.

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  • Margot E. Kaminski teaches, researches, and writes on law and technology. Her recent work has focused on AI, data privacy, freedom of speech, and online civil liberties. She received a 2018 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant to study comparative data privacy in the EU, and a 2024 Fulbright-Schuman grant to research comparative AI Law. In Spring 2024 she was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute.

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  • The Law of Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection Law, Privacy Law, First Amendment Law, Law and Robotics, Law and Technology, Algorithmic Accountability

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Teaching

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  • LAWS 5624 - Property
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
    Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls.
  • LAWS 6301 - Introduction to Intellectual Property Law
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Provides an overview of our nation's intellectual property laws, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. Discusses other matters related to intellectual property, including licensing, competition policy issues and remedies. Degree credit not granted for this course and TLEN 5245.
  • LAWS 6361 - Information Privacy and Cybersecurity
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023
    Explores the laws that regulate the basic technologies of the internet and the management of information in the digital age. It examines the most significant statutes, regulations and common law practices that comprise this emerging legal framework.
  • LAWS 6708 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Explores special topics in law. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
  • LAWS 8321 - Seminar: Computers and Law
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2022
    Explores a range of topics surrounding the juxtaposition of computers and law. Most are aware of the impact that law has on computers through the myriad of regulations that govern computers and related technologies. Less well known is the impact that computer technology is having on governance and on the practice of law. Explores both sides of this dynamic interplay between law impacting computing, and computing impacting law.
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