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Keynote: Nu Wexler
Nu Wexler is one of the founding partners of Four Corners Public Affairs, a full-service public affairs firm in Washington, D.C., that specializes in tech policy, AI, and content moderation. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Mr. Wexler served as a staffer to former U.S. Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings and later became communications director for the federal House Budget and House Education and Labor Committees. Thereafter, Mr. Wexler worked at Twitter as the company’s head of global policy communications. In that role, he assisted in developing content policies and worked with non-governmental organizations to identify and counteract violent extremism. Mr. Wexler subsequently held positions in policy communications at Facebook and Google, where he focused on privacy, cybersecurity, disinformation, and safety.
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Jessica Carroll | Motley Rice, LLC
Jessica Carroll is an associate attorney at Motley Rice LLC, where she works to give clients a voice against corporations that prioritize profits over individuals’ health and safety.
Ms. Carroll’s practice focuses on litigation involving consumer fraud and medical drugs and devices. A graduate of the College of Charleston, Ms. Carroll received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Charleston School of Law, where she served as Symposium Editor for the Charleston Law Review.
Prior to law school, Ms. Carroll worked for several technology companies, handling matters related to cloud infrastructure and automotive marketing. Currently, Ms. Carroll is part of a team at Motley Rice that is contributing to multidistrict litigation against social media companies, including Meta Platforms, Inc., Snap Inc., and TikTok Inc.
Plaintiffs in the litigation allege that the companies’ online platforms are defective because they are designed to maximize screen time and thus encourage addictive behaviors in and emotional and physical harm to adolescents.
Kevin Frazier | St. Thomas University College of Law
Kevin Frazier is the AI Fellow at the Lawfare Institute. He previously was an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law, where he remains an Affiliated Scholar in Emerging Technology and Constitutional Law. Professor Frazier currently teaches AI and Law as an Adjunct Professor at Delaware Law. His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews, including the Tennessee Law Review, and popular outlets, such as the MIT Tech Review. Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Frazier clerked on the Montana Supreme Court and conducted research for the Institute of Law and AI.
Michael Goodyear | New York University School of Law
Michael P. Goodyear is Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law and a fellow at NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy.
Professor Goodyear earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Technology Law Review.
After graduating from law school, Professor Goodyear entered private practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he represented clients such as Alibaba, Meta, and Samsung in IP infringement litigation and counseled companies including eBay, Meta, Pinterest, and Spotify on copyright and trademark issues. Professor Goodyear’s current research explores how copyright and trademark law can facilitate expression and both drive and hinder technological and cultural change. He also studies the ways in which intellectual property law can empower historically underrepresented populations, especially the LGBTQ+ community. Professor Goodyear’s ongoing projects focus on Web3 technologies, algorithms, and generative AI.
Professor Goodyear’s current research explores how copyright and trademark law can facilitate expression and both drive and hinder technological and cultural change. He also studies the ways in which intellectual property law can empower historically underrepresented populations, especially the LGBTQ+ community. Professor Goodyear’s ongoing projects focus on Web3 technologies, algorithms, and generative AI.
Dr. Rakin Hoq | MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital
Dr. Rakin Hoq is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Director of Child Psychiatry Consultation at MUSC’s Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. Dr. Hoq received his M.D. from Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and completed his residency at Summa Health System/NEOMED before accepting a child psychiatry fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
His work includes providing mental health assessments and treatment recommendations for children experiencing emergency mental health crises and for children having acute mental health needs while undergoing pediatric specialty care at MUSC.
In his capacity as a professor at MUSC, Dr. Hoq teaches medical students and physicians in training and conducts research focusing on family systems, medical education in psychiatry, and the mental health disparities and stigma affecting ethnic minority communities.
Dr. Hoq has given presentations at multiple national conferences and has authored or co-authored over a dozen scholarly articles on psychiatric topics. The recipient of awards for excellence in humanism and leadership in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Hoq has been invited on numerous occasions to speak about digital devices’ and social media’s effects on children.
Amy L. Landers | Drexel University's Kline School of Law
Amy L. Landers is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. Dean Landers received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of California Hastings College of Law (University of San Francisco Law) and thereafter served as the judicial clerk for the Honorable Oliver W. Wagner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Before joining the Kline School of Law faculty, Dean Landers was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she specialized in IP litigation and antitrust, fraud, trade secret, and trademark cases, and a distinguished professor of law at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Dean Landers is the author of Understanding Patent Law and the co-author of Global Issues in Intellectual Property Law and Global Issues in Patent Law. Her scholarship has appeared in multiple law journals, and she regularly presents her work at law schools across the country.
Tope O. Leyimu | Motley Rice LLC
Tope Leyimu received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and is a partner at Motley Rice. She focuses her practice on helping people catastrophically hurt or killed as a result of corporate wrongdoing, occupational hazards and environmental negligence.Bojan Perovic | Emory University School of Law and Stanford School of Law
Bojan Perovic is a postdoctoral scholar at the Emory University School of Law and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School. Mr. Perovic holds degrees from the University of Belgrade School of Political Sciences, the University of Belgrade School of Law, and the University of Michigan Law School, the last of which recognized him as the Jean Louis Joris International and Comparative Law Fellow.
Currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Mr. Perovic has extensive experience in international law and has practiced at prestigious law firms in both the United States and Germany. He has also served as a research fellow at the Centre for Studies and Research at Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
At Emory, Mr. Perovic’s research focuses on the intersection of vulnerability theory and business and human rights, paying particular attention to the ways in which governments can address corporate practices that exacerbate societal vulnerabilities.
At Stanford, Mr. Perovic conducts a comprehensive study on digital platform governance and examines how regulatory frameworks developed in the EU and U.S. affect global digital policy.
Scott Wilkens | Knight First Amendment Institute
Scott Wilkens is senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute. Having earned his undergraduate degree as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mr. Wilkens was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and received a Master of Science in international relations at the London School of Economics.
Subsequently receiving his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Wilkens clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before going into private practice at Jenner & Block LLP. At Jenner & Block, Mr. Wilkens concentrated on copyright infringement in the digital age and was involved in precedent-setting suits against YouTube, Google, and the internet streaming service Aereo.
In his current role at the Knight Institute, Mr. Wilkens focuses primarily on online freedom of speech and government regulation of social media platforms. He recently filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on the Institute’s behalf in Gonzalez v. Google, a case addressing whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects social media platforms’ use of recommendation algorithms. He has also filed amicus briefs on the Institute’s behalf in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits in cases challenging Florida and Texas laws that restrict the power of social media companies to moderate content.
Linny K.T. Ng | International Legal Foundation
Linny K.T. Ng is a Mark Haas Public Interest Fellow at the International Legal Foundation, where she works on access to legal aid, pre-trial justice reform, and gender equality projects.
Ms. Ng is also the judicial clerk to the Honorable Nancy M. Bannon of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County, and the deputy registrar for the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal Residual Mechanism.
Having received her Bachelor of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Ms. Ng subsequently earned her Global Professional LL.M. at the University of Toronto and her LL.M. in international and comparative law from Columbia Law School. While at Columbia, Ms. Ng served as Layout and Design Editor for the Columbia Journal of Asian Law and a board member on the Public Interest & Human Rights Committee of the Columbia Society on International Law.
One of Ms. Ng’s ongoing projects involves assessing the adequacy of existing laws to address non-consensual intimate content and the transnational efforts that will be needed to safeguard individual privacy and dignity in the digital age.