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Keynote: Nu Wexler
Nu Wexler is a communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in policy communications, both in the private sector and on Capitol Hill. Nu started his career as a staffer for former U.S. Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina and later served as communications director for the House Budget Committee, the House Education and Labor Committee, and Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
More recently, he worked in the technology sector for Twitter, Facebook, and Google, focusing on privacy, cybersecurity, disinformation, copyright, and child safety.
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Jessica Carroll | Motley Rice, LLC
Jessica Carroll is an associate at Motley Rice, LLC where the works to give clients a voice against corporations that prioritize profits over individuals’ health and safety. Her practice focuses on complex litigation involving medical drugs and devices as well as consumer frauds.
Jessica received her J.D. from Charleston School of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude and served as symposium editor for the Charleston Law Review. Prior to law school, Jessica worked for several technology companies dealing with cloud infrastructure and automotive marketing. She also contributes to multidistrict litigation against social media platforms such as Meta Platforms, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.
Kevin Frazier | St. Thomas University College of Law
Kevin Frazier is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law, where he teaches administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure. He is also a member of the California State Bar. Prior to joining St. Thomas University, Professor Frazier served as a Judicial Clerk on the Montana Supreme Court and conducted research on AI regulation as a Research Fellow with the Legal Priorities Project.
He graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law with a J.D., earning election to the Order of the Coif, and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in economics from the University of Oregon, where where he graduated summa cum laude. Recently, he became a Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin where he focuses on the intersection of emerging technology, consumer protection, and individual liberty.
His research examines how governance systems, such as Meta’s Oversight Board and state constitutions, have adjusted to an age of rapid technological advancement and institutional distrust. His work has been featured in several journals, opinion pieces, and he has been selected to share his research at several conferences.
Michael Goodyear | New York University School of Law
Michael Goodyear is an Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law. He earned his undergraduate degrees 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, Executive Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law, and Articles Editor of Reflaw.
In private practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, Michael represented clients such as Alibaba, Meta, and Samsung in IP infringement litigation and counseled companies like Alibaba, eBay, Meta, Pinterest, and Spotify on copyright and trademark issues including but not limited to, secondary liability, fair use, metaverse, NFTs, data scraping, notice and takedown, and personal jurisdiction.
Michael’s current research explores how copyright and trademark law can both drive and hinder technological and cultural evolution. He also studies the impact of copyright and trademark law on underrepresented populations, especially the LGBTQ+ community. His current projects focus on Web3 technologies, algorithms, and generative AI. His work has been published in over a dozen journals.
Dr. Rakin Hoq | MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital
Dr. Rakin Hoq is a child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in psychiatric consultation for children and families. He serves as the Director of Child Psychiatry Consultation at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Hoq earned his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, completed his residency at Summa Health System Hospitals and pursued a fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. His work includes providing mental health assessments and treatment recommendations for children experiencing emergency mental health crises or acute mental health needs while undergoing pediatric specialty care. He is involved in academics, serving as teaching faculty for medical students and physicians in training, and conducting academic research focusing on medical education in psychiatry, mental health disparities, and the stigma affecting ethnic minority communities.
Dr. Hoq has presented at numerous national conferences and published multiple academic papers in the field of psychiatry. Recently, he has presented on the impact of social media on adolescent development. He has been recognized with awards for excellence in humanism and leadership in psychiatry.
Amy L. Landers | Drexel Kline University School of Law
Amy Landers is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Drexel Kline University School of Law. Previously, Dean Landers was a former Judicial Clerk for Judge Oliver W. Wagner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, where she worked after receiving her JD magna cum laude from the University of California Hastings College of Law and partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, in Silicon Valley, California where she specialized in IP litigation, antitrust, fraud, trade secret and trademark cases.
Dean Landers has authored, co-authored, and co-edited three law books, and appeared in numerous publications. A frequent presenter, she has presented her work at Stanford University, University of California Berkeley School of Law and the University of Texas School of Law, among other venues.
Bojan Perovic | Emory University School of Law
Bojan Perovic is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Emory University School of Law, a Technology Law Fellow at Stanford Law School, a legal scholar, and a practitioner with extensive experience in international law, particularly in business and human rights.
He holds degrees from the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Belgrade School of Law, and the University of Belgrade School of Political Sciences. He is currently pursing a Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg.
Perovic has practiced law at premier law firms in the United States and Germany. His research contributions include roles at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, The Hauge Academy of International Law, and the Institute of Social Sciences. He has presented his work at conferences hosted by various universities and has been recognized as the Jean Louis Joris International and Comparative Law Fellow by the University of Michigan Law School.
At Emory, Perovic’s research focuses on how a responsive state can address societal vulnerabilities exacerbated by corporate practices, particularly in the context of technology and social media. At Stanford, Perovic conducts a comprehensive study on digital platform governance as part of his non-residential TTLF Fellowship, focusing on the regulatory frameworks of the EY and US, particularly around social media giants.
Scott Wilkens | Knight First Amendment Institute
Scott Wilkens is senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute, with nearly 20 years of litigation experience in private practice. He earned his undergraduate degrees in political science and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and obtained a Master of Science in international relations from the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar.
Wilkens received his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Currently, Wilkens focuses primarily on freedom of speech online 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. Additionally, he has filed amicus briefs on behalf of the Institute 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 Kit Tong NG | International Legal Foundation
Linny Kit Tong NG is a Mark Haas Public Interest / Service Fellow at the International Legal Foundation where she works on access to legal aid, pre-trial justice reform, and gender equality projects around the world.
Linny received her Masters of Law from Columbia Law School where she served as Layout and Design Editor for the Columbia Journal of Asian law. She has also received her Global Professional Masters of Law from University of Toronto and her Bachelor of Laws from London School of Economics and Political Science.
Linny has been published in numerous law journals. Currently, she is researching the adequacy of existing laws to address the evolution of digital pornography and “deepfake” technology and its significant expansion in the dissemination of information within cyberspace.