Publications (by date)

This illustrated essay is an edited version of the 38th Annual Silha Lecture, delivered on October 23, 2023 at the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Reviewing Sarah B. Lawsky, Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law, 75 SMU L. Rev. 535 (2022)

Part of the Chicago-Kent Law Review AI Disrupting Law Symposium, March 8 and April 26, 2024

Annual editions 2011–

Also at Regulatable ML and Red Teaming GenAI workshops at NeurIPS 2024

Part of the Data in Business & Society symposium at Lewis and Clark Law School, September 8, 2023

Also at International Communication Association (ICA) 2024

Honorable mention, best student paper, AI for Social Impact Track

Part of the BTLJ-BCLT symposium From the DMCA to the DSA—A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Liability and Copyright Law at Berkeley Law School, April 7-8, 2023

Reviewing Samuel R. Bowman, Eight Things to Know About Large Language Models (2023)

Chinese translation: 数据财产权, 9 法治社会 [Law-Based Society] 61 (魏远山 [Wei Yuanshan] trans. 2024)

Part of the COHUBICOL Philosophers’ Seminar on The Legal Effect of Code-Driven ‘Law’, November 11–12, 2021

Part of the William and Mary Law Review Cryptocurrency Symposium, February 11, 2022

Reviewing a draft of Gregory Klass, How to Interpret a Vending Machine: Smart Contracts and Contract Law, 7 Georgetown Law Technology Review 69 (2023)

Also adapted for The Verge

Reviewing evelyn douek, The Rise of Content Cartels (Knight First Amendment Institute 2020)

Reviewing Eric Goldman, Emojis and the Law, 93 Washington Law Review 1227 (2018)

A revised version of a Distinguished Lecture given for the Ohio State Technology Law Journal (September 20, 2019)

A lightly revised version of the Fourth Annual Greg Lastowka Memorial Lecture, delivered at Rutgers Law School Camden (November 15, 2018)

Part of the Journal of Law & Innovation Symposium on Algorithms, Big Data, and Contracting: The Law of Agreements in the Digital Era, January 11, 2019

Reviewing An Xiao Mina, Memes to Movements (2019)

Part of the 26th Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Constitutional Law Conference on Listeners and the First Amendment at the University of Colorado, April 13, 2018

Reviewing a draft of Shaanan Cohney, David Hoffman, Jeremy Sklaroff, & David Wishnick, Coin-Operated Capitalism, 119 Columbia Law Review 591 (2019)

Part of the Governance and Regulation of Internet Platforms symposium at Georgetown University Law School, February 23, 2018

See also this sur-response

Responding to Olivier Sylvain, Discriminatory Designs on User Data, Knight First Amendment Institute Emerging Threats (2018). Reprinted in The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today (David E. Pozen ed. 2020)

Part of an online symposium on the 20th anniversary of Zeran v. AOL, and reprinted in Zeran v. America Online (Eric Goldman and Jeff Kosseff eds. 2020)

Part of a micro-symposium on Eric Goldman, Writing Tenure Review Letters: My Top 10 Suggestions, 19 Green Bag 2d 357 (2016)

Reviewing Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (2015)

Responding to Solon Barocas and Andrew Selbst, Big Data’s Disparate Impact, 104 California Law Review 101 (2016)

I wrote this essay for myself as a personal statement of principles. It is public but not published.

Part of the Hacking into the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: The CFAA at 30 symposium (November 6, 2015)

Reviewing multiple articles

Part of the Copyright Outside the Box symposium at Columbia Law School (October 2, 2015)

Reviewing a draft of Lauren E. Willis, Performance-Based Consumer Law, 82 University of Chicago Law Review 1309 (2015)

Part of the Social Media and Social Justice symposium at Pace Law School (March 28, 2014)

Part of the When Companies Study Their Customers: The Changing Face of Science, Research, and Ethics symposium at the University of Colorado, Boulder (Dec. 4, 2014)

Part of the Legal Education Looking Forward symposium at Seton Hall Law School (October 25, 2013)

Reviewing a draft of Solon Barocas and Andrew Selbst, Big Data’s Disparate Impact, 104 California Law Review 671 (2016)

Responding to Kyle Dolinsky, CAD’s Cradle: Untangling Copyrightability, Derivative Works, and Fair Use in 3D Printing, 71 Washington an Lee Law Review 591 (2014) as part of the W&LLR Student Notes Symposium (September 19, 2013)

Reviewing Finn Brunton, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (2013)

Responding to Derek E. Bambauer, Orwell’s Armchair, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 863 (2012)

Reviewing E. Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (2012)

Part of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law Copyright and Creativity symposium (Jan. 27, 2012)

Reviewing Felix T. Wu, Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity, 87 Notre Dame Law Review 101 (2011)

Part of the Privacy and the Press symposium at the University of Colorado, Boulder (Dec. 3, 2010)

Part of the Data Security and Data Privacy symposium at Brooklyn Law School (Mar. 19, 2010)

Reviewing Joseph Michael Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (2010)

Reviewing Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It (2008)

Introduction to a symposium issue based on the D Is for Digitize conference at New York Law School (Oct. 8–10, 2009)

Part of a symposium on Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It (2008) and David Post, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (2009) at Fordham Law School (December 4, 2009)

Part of the Internet Expression in the 21st Century: Where Technology & Law Collide symposium at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (February 22, 2010)

Part of a Cyber Civil Rights symposium at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (November 20, 2009)

Reply to Susan Freiwald, A Comment on James Grimmelmann’s Saving Facebook, 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009)

Reviewing Michael Risch, Virtual Third Parties, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 416 (2009)

Part of the the When Worlds Collide symposium at Fordham Law School (Oct. 30–Nov. 1, 2008)

Turkish translation: Sanal Dünya Feodalizmi (Fırat Fevzi Kafadar trans. 2024)

Part of the State of Play conference at New York Law School (Nov. 13-15, 2003)

This essay is a slightly edited version of an address Cindy Cohn delivered at the Ars Electronica festival in 2003. It is available under a Creative Commons license thanks to generous permissions from her and from Ars Electronica.

Please do not ask me for a copy. I do not own the copyright, and I am not in a position to verify teachers’ credentials. All inquiries should be directed to Prentice-Hall.

Unpublished undergraduate thesis