In collaboration with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, the Schwartz Reisman Institute welcomes Julie Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University’s Law Center, for a critical analysis of law workshop.
Talk title
“Between truth and power: The legal constructions of informational capitalism”
Attendance and registration
There is no registration required. This event will take place on Zoom. For assistance or more information, please contact events.law@utoronto.ca.
Recommended reading
J. Cohen, “The Biopolitical Public Domain” (2019).
About Julie Cohen
Cohen 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. She is the author of Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012), and co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2020).
Cohen is a faculty co-director of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy, a faculty co-director of the Center on Privacy and Technology, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, she was assistant professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Cohen previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She was law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Julie Cohen