People I Always Talk to About Law, Speech, & Tech
This is my shortlist of brilliant, experienced, and always open to just chat through an idea types of folks in tech, law, speech, First Amendment, AI, EU tech law, and governance. (Also they’re all great people)
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@klonick.bsky.social
@arturpericles.bsky.social
Lecturer on AI law & policy & Schmidt Visiting Scholar @ Yale Resident Fellow, Information Society Project @ Yale Law School
@jspeta.bsky.social
Law Prof, Northwestern. Co-Prez Law Schools Global League. Internet Policy, Ad Law, Torts, Antitrust, etc. Lawyer, past and present. Int'l Programs, former Vice Dean, Interim Dean, etc.
@yvonnelee.bsky.social
GenAI & product policy external engagement @ Meta. PhD student @ Oxford Internet Institute. Washington DC.
@hvaloche.bsky.social
🖋️Law Professor - Université de Brest (UBO). Chaire Institut universitaire de France. Team GEODE & Yale ISP. 💻International Law, Tech Regulation, Social Media, Digital Rights. 📖 Co-auteur "Etats et réseaux sociaux" (LGDJ) https://grsomedia.wordpress.com
@crootof.bsky.social
Currently the ELSI Visiting Scholar (Emeritus) at DARPA, so my feed may be quieter than usual. When wearing my UR lawprof hat, I tend to write about techlaw, war, and bizarre torts hypos.
@danieljkelley.bsky.social
Gaming and tech advocate; Brooklyn native; Director, Strategy and Operations, Center for Tech & Society, ADL
@naomishiffman.bsky.social
data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
@brandonsilverman.bsky.social
working on something new. former ceo & co-founder of crowdtangle, policy advocate for open internet & transparency, 3x boy-dad, less frequent dog walker.
@sellars.bsky.social
Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law. Outgoing Executive Director of the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic @ Boston University School of Law. He/him.
@sherman1890.bsky.social
University Professor, Penn Law & Wharton. Comments occasionally on antitrust issues and follows news, public law, economics, and legal history.
@elisugarman.bsky.social
Personal account. Trust and safety/philanthropy/cyber/tech policy. All views are my own and not those of my employer. Following and re-blueskying(?) =/= endorsement.
@salome.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data
@jmiers230.bsky.social
Assistant Law Prof @AkronLaw | Computer Scientist | 1A 💬 and tech scholar | meme docent 🧙🏼♀️ Prev: Google, Twitter (no, not X), Chamber of Progress jmiers@uakron.edu
@jamalgreene.bsky.social
Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. How Rights Went Wrong (http://tinyurl.com/36fwz4wj). Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
@smw.bsky.social
Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
@gordpennycook.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦 https://gordonpennycook.com/
@stevenlevy.bsky.social
Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@riana.bsky.social
Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Dum spiro spero. Anger is an energy. she/her
@kendraserra.bsky.social
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. I love video games, bodily autonomy, E2E encryption, and Gritty.
@przemekpalka.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Jagiellonian Law (Krakow PL), affiliated fellow at Yale ISP. Researching law & technology, especially data law and mental costs. More at https://przemysLAW.technology
@patentscholar.bsky.social
Prof at @StanfordLaw.bsky.social, Senior Fellow at @SIEPR.bsky.social, physics PhD. Researching IP & innovation. Coauthor of free patent casebook: patentcasebook.org
@maureenebrady.com
Professor @ Harvard Law writing on property institutions, land use, private law, and eminent domain. Section 3 for life. Always half-joking. (AKA Maureen.)
@julietshen.bsky.social
just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. Head of Product @roost.tools 🔓 proud public school alum with roots in the desert 🌵 full of personal opinions like the skeets below
@sranderson.bsky.social
General Counsel and Senior Editor at Lawfare. Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Columbia Law School. Former diplomat and lawyer.
@proffionasm.bsky.social
Economics professor;, competition, antitrust, IO, healthcare
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@adamconner.bsky.social
Older but no wiser on a new social platform than the old ones. Professionally caring about the internet, doing tech policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social & @capaction.bsky.social but a poster first, always, and forever. Opinions are…you know the drill.
@hoffprof.bsky.social
William A. Schnader Prof. of Law at Penn Law Teaching & writing mostly about contracts, occasionally backyard birds. Against et al. Pro legal jargon. Neutral on legal process.
@rightsduff.bsky.social
Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
@rickhasen.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
@jnsheff.bsky.social
Law professor. New Yorker. Co-author & admin, Open Source Property. Research and teaching focuses on IP, Property, and Legal Theory.
@noahfeldman.bsky.social
Felix Frankfurter Professor, Chair of Society of Fellows @Harvard, Columnist @opinion.bsky.social Ethics of Power
@rebekahtromble.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, GWU Union of Concerned Scientists’ 2024 Defender of Science Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/ https://expertvoicestogether.org/ https://independenttechresearch.org/
@mjcrockett.bsky.social
Psychology professor at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | AI hype-buster | They/She 🏳️🌈 www.crockettlab.org
@jatucker.bsky.social
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
@cagoldberglaw.bsky.social
Lawyer for families destroyed by big tech. Cagoldberglaw.com NYT Editor's Choice: Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos Stalkers Pervs and Trolls.
@loutrel.bsky.social
Numérique et action publique, une passion- Economie industrielle, ma lunette pour (essayer de) comprendre le monde - Compte personnel
@stzeitouni.bsky.social
Postdoc, Berkeley Law NYU Law & Hebrew University alum Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine) 🍂🫒
@nabiha.bsky.social
Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse
@asaflubin.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law. Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️♂️, Torts 🏛️. 🏳️🌈
@vivekdotca.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. Working at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.
@cbavitz.bsky.social
Clinical Prof + Vice Dean, HLS. Managing Dir, Cyberlaw Clinic. He/him.
@bgoldberg.bsky.social
Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
@profrothman.bsky.social
Prof @pennlaw @annenbergpenn • IP & free speech, TM, (c), right of publicity • Author of The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (@Harvard_Press). Founder of Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity at rightofpublicityroadmap.com
@gushurwitz.bsky.social
Senior Fellow and Academic Director @ Penn Carey Law School Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition Director of Law & Econ Programs @ ICLE
@rosesomm.bsky.social
Social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. I research consent and other topics at the intersection of psychology & law. Views my own. www.roseannasommers.com
@karenlevy.bsky.social
Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
@jvh.bsky.social
(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights. @ivir-uva.bsky.social
@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University Co-Director, C4D Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
@amac0.bsky.social
Lawyer, coder, baker. Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter). Curious tinkerer. @amac on the other thing. Now in London.
@kevintobia.bsky.social
Law Professor at Georgetown. Legal interpretation, Supreme Court, philosophy, experimental jurisprudence, law & tech Bio: https://bit.ly/4hQXQil | Papers: https://bit.ly/3OkT2nH 🏳️🌈
@jtlg.bsky.social
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
@yaleisp.bsky.social
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
@berinszoka.bsky.social
🇺🇸/🇩🇪 Nomad. Tech lawyer @TechFreedom. “To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man” 🏳️🌈📚🗽 PhD student, Dublin City University; LLM in 🇪🇺 law, Paris Panthéon-Assas; JD, University of Virginia. 🏡: Albuquerque, Bethesda
@mathver.bsky.social
EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
@lageneralista.ca
Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
@anchorchange.com
Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@charlottewillner.bsky.social
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders: following me for trust and safety content. Enjoy the egg memes.
@jkosseff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Law, US Naval Academy. Views my own and do not represent DOD, Navy, or USNA. jeffkosseff.com
@chinmayiarun.bsky.social
Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
@pahlkadot.bsky.social
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
@narosenblum.bsky.social
Associate Professor @NYULaw | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
@rcalo.bsky.social
I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a book coming out next year about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@marklemley.bsky.social
William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
@granick.bsky.social
Personal account. ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
@pamelasamuelson.bsky.social
Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
@nicolewong.bsky.social
Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
@ksabeelrahman.bsky.social
Law prof @ Cornell Law School Formerly - OIRA Associate Administrator; President, Demos
@lessig.bsky.social
Law professor, activist, not convinced we have time, acting as if we do anyway.
@ericgoldman.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
@alexabdo.bsky.social
Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
@delbius.bsky.social
Still optimistic about people. Trust & Safety believer. Former head of T&S at Twitter 1.0 (2008-2021). More about me at delbius.com!
@knightcolumbia.org
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education. https://knightcolumbia.org/
@cendemtech.bsky.social
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU.bsky.social for our EU-based team. https://cdt.org
@alanrozenshtein.com
Law professor @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Senior editor and research director @lawfare.bsky.social. Nonresident senior fellow @brookings.edu. Former DOJ. alanrozenshtein.com
@dwillner.bsky.social
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
@orinkerr.bsky.social
Professor, Stanford Law School. Author, The Digital 4th Amendment: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
@daphnek.bsky.social
Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford CPC. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. I've done this stuff for a long time and am getting kind of cranky about it.
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!