Salon Series: Michael Karnicolas
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. April 28, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PDT
About the speaker: Michael Karanicolas is the Executive Director of the UCLA Institute for Technology Law & Policy, and an affiliated fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Prior to joining UCLA, he was the Wikimedia Fellow at Yale Law, where he led the Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. Michael has ten years of experience in civil society, working projects connected to freedom of expression, transparency, and digital rights. In this capacity, he led law reform campaigns to promote foundational rights for democracy across the developing world, and he was also involved in a 2020 constitutional challenge in Canada, which struck down that country’s criminal prohibition targeting “fake news”.
His scholarly research encompasses a number of thematic areas, but generally revolves around the application of human rights standards in an online context, including content moderation, privacy and surveillance, digital contracts, internet governance, open government and the right to information, intellectual property law, and the regulation of political speech. Michael has a B.A. (Hons.) from Queen's University (Dean's List), an LL.B. from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University (Dean's List), and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto.