Margot Kaminski

Professor Margot Kaminski Selected as Fulbright Scholar for 2023-2024

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:01:05 +0000

Professor Margot Kaminski Selected as Fulbright Scholar for 2023-2024 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/25/2023 - 16:01

The University of Colorado Law School is proud to announce that Margot Kaminski, associate professor of law and director of the Privacy Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2023-2024.

Professor Kaminski has been selected for the Fulbright Schuman European Affairs Program, which provides opportunities for scholars to conduct research and engage in academic exchanges related to EU policies and institutions, conducting research relevant to the future of the transatlantic relationship. Her project will examine the EU’s approach to regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI), across sectors.

“I am honored to have been selected as a Fulbright Scholar and am excited for the opportunity to engage with colleagues in Europe and better understand the EU’s significant new laws regulating AI,” said Professor Kaminski.

This is Professor Kaminski’s second Fulbright award. She received a 2018 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant to study comparative and transatlantic approaches to privacy in the EU. Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad. Scholars play a vital role in U.S. public diplomacy, establishing long-term relationships between people and nations. The benefits of a Fulbright Scholar Award extend beyond the individual recipient, raising the profile of their home institutions as well.

“We are thrilled that Margot Kaminski has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. Her scholarship and leadership bring so much to Colorado Law. I, along with her students, fellow faculty, and colleagues, look forward to the impact her research and engagement will have both abroad and at the ��«��Ƶ,” said Lolita Buckner Inniss, dean of Colorado Law.

Professor Kaminski specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Recently, her work has examined autonomous systems, including AI. Her academic work has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, among others, and she frequently writes for the popular press.

Professor Kaminski is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. While at Yale, she co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA), a law school clinic dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fairbanks, Alaska. She worked at a literary agency prior to law school and has worked at Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2011-2014 Kaminski served as the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an intellectual center addressing the implications of new information technologies for law and society. She remains an affiliated fellow of the Yale ISP. From 2014-2017, Kaminski was an Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Alumni include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 78 MacArthur Fellows, and thousands of leaders and world-renowned experts in academia and many other fields across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

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ICYMI: Faculty Publications and Notable Mentions

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:59:49 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications and Notable Mentions Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/29/2022 - 15:59

Widely recognized for its intellectual diversity and originality, the faculty at Colorado Law encompasses an array of prominent legal scholars who are widely cited, both in academia and throughout the national media landscape. We invite you to catch up on the latest faculty publications and media mentions with this weekly round up, provided by the extraordinary Wise Law Library.

Faculty Publications:

Aamir Abdullah, Westlaw’s Key Number System, 51 Colo. Law. 8 (2022).

Margot Kaminski, Regulating the Risks of AI, SSRN.com, Aug. 23, 2022 (forthcoming, 103 Boston U. L. Rev. (2023)) (recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Artificial Intelligence - Law, Policy, & Ethics eJournal, Consumer Law eJournal, Data Science & Analytics eJournal, InfoSciRN: Artificial Intelligence (Topic), InfoSciRN: Data Protection (Topic), InfoSciRN: Information Control (Topic), InfoSciRN: Information Privacy (Topic), InfoSciRN: Other Artificial Intelligence (Sub-Topic), Information Policy & Ethics eJournal, Information Privacy Law eJournal, Information Use eJournal, LSN: Consumer Privacy (Sub-Topic), LSN: Online Privacy (Sub-Topic), LSN: Regulation of Information & Privacy Issues Involving Consumers (Topic) and Libraries & Information Technology eJournal).

Notable Mentions:

Aya Gruber, Crucial hearing held on Friday that could determine outcome of deadly Denver arson case, Denver 9 News, Aug. 19, 2022.

Aya Gruber, Kevin Cole, Top Ten Recent SSRN Downloads in Criminal Law eJournal, CrimProf Blog, Aug. 21, 2022 (Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law #2).

Dale Hatfield, Silicon Flatirons Center, John Eggerton, Padden: FCC Needs to Set Receiver Standards, NextTv.com, Aug. 24, 2022.

Margot Kaminski, Lawrence Solum, Kaminski on Regulating AI, Legal Theory Blog, Aug. 26, 2022.

Ben Levin, Faculty Workshop: Benjamin Levin of University of Colorado, University of Virginia, Aug. 26, 2022.

Douglas Spencer, Harry Stevens, Artur Galocha & Adrian Blanco, Can Computer Simulations Help Fix Democracy?, The Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2022.

Mark Squillace, US crude output likely to see little change from rollercoaster court rulings on leasing pause, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Aug. 19, 2022.

Mark Squillace, Conrad Swanson, ‘We needed a deal yesterday’: Deadline passes without deal to save Colorado River, Denver Post, Aug. 20, 2022.

Mark Squillace, Sam Metz & Felicia Fonseca, Deadline looms for western states to cut Colorado River use, Associated Press, Aug. 15, 2022 (reprints include the Washington Post).

Mark Squillace, Heather Richards, Is NEPA a winning strategy to fight oil and gas?, E&E News Energywire, Aug. 24, 2022 (VPN logon required).

Mark Squillace, Bobby Magill, Biden ‘Abused’ Authority in Declaring Utah Monuments, State Says, Bloomberg Law News, Aug. 24, 2022 (VPN logon or Bloomberg logon required).

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:49:51 +0000

Professor Margot E. Kaminski to Present Award-Winning Paper at U.S. Senate Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/12/2019 - 12:49

Margot E. Kaminski

Margot E. Kaminski, associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, received the 10th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPM) Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. This award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for data protection authorities abroad.

Kaminski and her coauthor, Gianclaudio Malgieri, will present their winning paper, “Algorithmic Impact Assessments under the GDPR: Producing Multi-layered Explanations,” to policymakers, academics, and industry privacy professionals at the U.S. Senate in February.

"U.S. lawmakers at both the federal and state level have recently proposed using 'algorithmic impact assessments' to mitigate AI bias and discrimination. Our paper provides a close look at how this policy tool might work in Europe, including significant suggestions for policymakers in other countries."

The paper addresses how a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) links the two faces of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) approach to algorithmic accountability: individual rights and systemic collaborative governance. Kaminski and Malgieri address the relationship between DPIAs and individual transparency rights, and propose that impact assessments link the GDPR’s two methods of governing algorithmic decision making by both providing systemic governance and serving as an important “suitable safeguard” (Art. 22) of individual rights.

"U.S. lawmakers at both the federal and state level have recently proposed using 'algorithmic impact assessments' to mitigate AI bias and discrimination," Kaminski said. "Our paper provides a close look at how this policy tool might work in Europe, including significant suggestions for policymakers in other countries."

Kaminski joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2017 and serves as director of the Privacy Initiative at Colorado Law’s Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. She specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Her recent work has examined autonomous systems, including AI, robots, and drones (UAS). In 2018, she researched comparative and transatlantic approaches to data privacy in the Netherlands and Italy as a recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant.

Margot E. Kaminski, associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, received the 10th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPM) Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. This award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for data protection authorities abroad.

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Margot Kaminski: Colorado Police Partner With a Popular Doorbell Camera Company | The Denver Post

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Margot Kaminski: Colorado Police Partner With a Popular Doorbell Camera Company | The Denver Post Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 09/22/2019 - 00:00

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