Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State (Book Launch)

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Chinmayi Arun, RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander, and Haochen Sun for a conversation launching Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State, a new open access volume from Professors Chander and Sun.
MODERATOR
Chinmayi Arun is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Law and Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Her research focuses on platform governance, social media, algorithmic decision-making, the data economy and privacy, within the larger universe of questions raised by law’s relationship with the information society. She is interested in how these questions affect marginalized populations, especially in the Majority World.
SPEAKERS
Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University. Author of The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press), he is a gradate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He clerked for Second Circuit Chief Judge Jon Newman and Ninth Circuit Judge William Norris. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary Gottlieb. He has been a visiting law professor at Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Cornell, and Tsinghua. He is a Vice President of the Georgetown University Senate.
Haochen Sun is a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and an expert on intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. His monograph Technology and the Public Interest (Cambridge University Press) puts forward a new theoretical approach to protecting the right to technology and enforcing technology companies’ fundamental responsibilities. His opinions about law and technology have appeared in media outlets, such as BBC News, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In spring 2023, he served as a Short-Term International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School.
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The Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in focused, time-bound collaboration, the Institute has a portfolio of research, projects, programming, and educational opportunities aimed at improving the state of digital social spaces. Learn more about RSM here: rebootingsocialmedia.org/
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