I School Research Exchange

Cancelled: Between Truth and Power: The Legal Construction of Informational Capitalism

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Julie Cohen

Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, the U.S. legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes. My book Between Truth and Power explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, I argue that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it too is transforming in fundamental ways.

Julie Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown Law Center. She teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms, and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions.

 

The I School Research Exchange offers I School faculty and Ph.D. students opportunities to learn about, discuss, and contribute to research developing within the school, across the campus, and in the region.

Meetings are open to I School faculty, I School Ph.D. students, I School visiting scholars, and invited guests.

Lunch, for those who have signed up, will be served at 12:00. The talks start at 12:30 and we try to wrap up between 1:45 and 2:00.

Last updated:

March 9, 2020