GW Law Professor Alicia Solow-Niederman has been busy contributing her scholarship and expertise to conferences and projects.
In July, she moderated a panel on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy” for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Bellevue, Washington. And in September, her work was included in a two-day symposium hosted by The Redesigning the Governance Stack Project at Georgetown Law. Professor Solow-Niederman has been involved with the Georgetown project since its inception five years ago.
In both instances, Professor Solow-Niederman, whose scholarship explores the intersection of law and technology, shared insights on how to approach the complex relationships among judges, policymakers, the public, and private actors at the local, state, and federal level.
“Now, more than ever, we must think intentionally about the ways that technologies like AI affect human lives and human values,” Professor Solow-Niederman said. We must avoid the temptation to anthropomorphize AI and recognize that we are creating legal structures and we have power to decide where society should go.
“Sometimes that means thinking critically about whether a proposed frontier AI law integrates community perspectives – or if it is really capture under the guise of governance,” she added. Sometimes that means educating and empowering judges to think about the application of law in a time of technological change. These are not easy questions. But there is no better time than the 250th anniversary of our country to invest public resources in answering them.”
Professor Solow-Niederman has won awards for her scholarship on the intersection of law and technology. In March, she received the Early Career Research Award from the George Washington University Office of the Vice Provost for Research. She also received a Scholarly Paper Competition Honorable Mention Award for “AI and Doctrinal Collapse” at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in January. And her paper was named a winner of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers (PPPM) Awards hosted by the Future of Privacy Forum.
In addition to “AI and Doctrinal Collapse,” Professor Solow-Niederman’s work has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review, among other law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. She is also a member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Advisory Board, a faculty affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.
