Covering Tennessee’s Elvis Act and California’s consideration of a digital replica law for the dead
With author Angela Huyue Zhang; presented by Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Presented by Penn Program on Regulation
article in Penn Today
1/31 event co-presented by CTIC and Penn Medical Ethics & Health Policy
CTIC Research Fellow Giovanna Massarotto argues that computer science can help regulators monitor markets and identify algorithmic collusion.
January 22-24 event on “Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age”–livestreaming available
In-person event on January 31 4:30-6:00 pm
Open to the public at Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Register for “Merger Enforcement in an Age of Heightened Antitrust Scrutiny: International, Federal, and State Perspectives”
paper: Using Computer Science to Detect Cheat Tolerant Cartels
CTIC co-sponsored this November 20 PPR workshop
This Penn Carey Law course empowers a new generation of engineers to recognize and examine critically the ethical, moral, and legal quandaries.
Posted on YouTube
CTIC co-sponsored this first workshop in the 2023-2024 series, AI and Climate Change: Global Sustainability in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
CTIC sponsored this Penn Program on Regulation (PPR) event
Prof. Christopher S. Yoo and Bethany Lee L’22 advocate FDA regulatory action to better address cybersecurity risks of medical devices such as pacemakers.
At “This Is Small Business,” Practice Prof. Cynthia Dahl offers her insights and shares resources to help you protect your intellectual property.
At The Regulatory Review, CTIC Senior Fellow Justin (Gus) Hurwitz examines the FTC’s recent proposed changes to its premerger notification forms, arguing they are unlikely to survive judicial review.
In The Regulatory Review
September 6, noon -1:00 pm, Gittis 213
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman continues to warn that “the right of publicity may pose a significant legal roadblock for developers of AI.”
On Prof. Rothman’s blog, Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity
in Competition Policy International
Private Law and Intellectual Property Conference July 6-7
Jessie Levin L’25, MCIT’25 is the 2023 recipient of the annual CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholarship.
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman discusses the Supreme Court’s narrow ruling in the Jack Daniel’s case and its implications for both that case and trademark law generally.
In a Bloomberg Law article
In Penn Today
Prof. Jennifer Rothman recently penned a piece at Slate exploring the “growing threat to the next Brooke Shields of the world.”
CTIC Academic Fellow Giovanna Massarotto outlines the possible routes of cryptocurrency’s future.
Committee focuses on the health and well-being of children and adolescents
CTIC is a sponsor of this in-person event at Penn Carey Law
co-sponsored by Penn Program on Regulation
from Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
The Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program awards $40,000 to up to three students to help offset tuition expenses for their additional year of study at Penn Engineering. Penn Engineering masters’ programs application deadline: February 1, 2023 CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholarship application deadline: February 15, 2023
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Virtual panel co-sponsored by CTIC and Penn Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Co-sponsored by CTIC
Article on Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity
INFORMED: Conver- sations on Democracy in the Digital Age runs November 28-30
“The Supreme Court’s resolution of the Gonzalez case will likely represent the most consequential update for Section 230 in the foreseeable future,” writes Prof. Christopher S. Yoo in the Los Angeles Times.
The Court will review its first case interpreting Section 230, Gonzalez vs. Google
Christopher Yoo and Cynthia Dahl are panelists at the October 29 event
Watch the playback of this Oct. 20 Federalist Society program
The report was issued by the Broadband Commission Working Group on Smartphone Access
Read his remarks made at Penn Carey Law on October 19
A hybrid event on November 1-2 in Washington, DC
Christopher Yoo on the role of M&A in the digital economy and more
Watch the playback
An op-ed in The Hill
Prof. Yoo is quoted in a Financial Review article
Submission deadline is Sept. 30
With Tiffany Keung L’22
Prof. Anita L. Allen has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
Recipients are Katie Cohen L’24, Shashank Sirivolu L’24 & Molly Zhang L’23
presented by R Street Institute
who will collaborate on mobile access network projects
submission deadline: July 1
CTIC’s April 25 event
by Penn Law Antitrust Association and Penn Law M&A Society
One is focused on a comparative competition law project, the other on comms technologies and their impact on development outcomes
at noon
A CTIC-PIPG presentation with litigator David Wolfsohn
Hammer discussed cryptocurrency’s role in various industries, while Massarotto explored the issue of regulation.
with author Lewis Grossman
Massarotto, along with Prof. Yoo, will discuss competition issues associated with the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and predictive analytics in business decisions during Penn Law Antitrust Association’s annual seminar.
A public interview on Oct. 26 with Journal and UofAz Law’s TechLaw program
The research delves into the role data play in digital platforms’ business strategies and their antitrust implications.
Read the press release
Video playback available
The full report: Strategies and Business Models for Improving Broadband Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: Guidelines for the Planning, Investment, and Rollout of Broadband Networks
At the virtual Privacy + Security Forum on October 1, 2021
Christopher Yoo answers the question as a member of the Antitrust Brainstorming Board, a new project of Competition Policy International and CCA
Reported in Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports for the period covering 2016-20
in Penn Today
Broadband expansion, in rural areas especially, is a key component of the infrastructure package proposed by the Biden Administration. Penn professors identify the monumental task at hand.
Soojin Jeong L’23 will work for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and William Weber L’23 will work with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s CTIC Public Interest Fellowships are open to 1L and 2L students.
Herbert Hovenkamp talks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about Parler’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon
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Read the Annual Report here
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The Law School and CTIC are pleased to announce the sixth year of the CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program, a competitive program that awards scholarships to JD students pursuing joint degrees in law and technology.
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The rhetoric of techlash: A source of clarity or confusion?
As a member of PIT-UN, the University deepens its investment in STEM training for the public good
Click here for details on applying for this exciting opportunity
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC) has awarded the CTIC Summer Public Interest Fellowships to students Gerald Adams L’22 and Joshua Burd L’22.
Grant to provide a basis for evidence-based decision-making regarding the economics of digital services. The grant will provide general support for CTIC to research and develop policy on digital vertical integration and the competitive advantages of scale in the digital economy.
Sheu is working in the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, DC.
Under the umbrella of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC) and its associated faculty, research, teaching, and events, Penn Law rose from number 16 to a tie for number 8 in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report law school specialty rankings for intellectual property.
The CTIC Summer Public Interest Fellowship funds internships with public interest or government organizations that are doing work relevant to CTIC’s focus in technology policy, intellectual property, cyber law, privacy, and related fields.
On December 5th, a panel of antitrust law experts spoke on several trending topics in recent antitrust legislation, including the case of Ohio v. American Express.
Panelists Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Professor of Law at Penn and Co-Director of CTIC, Corinne Militello L’07, Counsel at Ballard Spahr, and Peter Decherney, Penn Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and English, considered the DMCA from their personal experiences with copyright law.
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition offer $40,000 scholarship to support students pursuing joint degrees in law and technology
Christina Chen L’20 and Vivek Kembaiyan L’20 will spend the summer providing pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to the internet, new technology, and intellectual property.
Professor Christopher Yoo is prominently cited in the judicial decision approving the AT&T/Time Warner merger, one of the most closely watched cases of the year.
Penn Law’s 11 cross-disciplinary academic centers and institutes promote research that yield solutions in law and policy.
CTIC highlights ten years of law and tech at Penn Law
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Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC) are pleased to announce the third year of the CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship awarded to JD students pursuing a joint degree in law and technology.
More information can be found here.
The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition’s 1 World Connected project analyizes which innovative approaches to increasing internet connectivity are more effective and efficient. In this video feature, fellows Müge Haseki and Sharada Srinivasan discuss the research and fieldwork they conducted in Rwanda on connectivity and its impacts.
October 4th, 2017 at Penn Law
On October 4, a panel of professors at Penn Law discussed six possible patent law cases for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming term.
The coming together of law and technology and what it heralds for students and society.
Christopher Yoo and Timothy Pfenninger publish a response to their recent study.
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Christopher Yoo and co-author Timothy Pfenninger released the first comprehensive study of the financial viability of America’s municipal fiber networks — “Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Financial Performance.”
Monday, May 1, 2017 Rayburn Room 2044, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. For more information and to RSVP please click HERE.
Penn Law professor Christopher S. Yoo is one of 29 members of the newly created Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee.
A new project conducted jointly by Penn Law, the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, and Penn Engineering is exploring the developments and challenges of securing cyber-physical systems and ensuring their users’ privacy.
1 World Connected, a new project from Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, is studying the best ways to provide Internet access to the half of the world’s people who are not online.
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition are pleased to announce the second year of the CTIC Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship to be awarded to JD students pursuing a joint degree in law and technology.
Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, Penn Law professors Christopher Yoo and Jonathan Klick, and Wharton professor Joseph Harrington are joining with scholars from China and Europe to launch a three-year study comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the United States.
The Law School and its centers and institutes added new faculty, fellows, and staff members this academic year.
Penn Law’s CTIC Fellows, Bryan Choi and Camilla Hrdy, will be taking full-time academic positions next year. Choi has taken a joint appointment at the College of Law and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University; Hrdy will be an assistant professor at the University of Akron Law School.
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition have awarded CTIC Scholarships to two first-year students at the Law School, Teddi Anne Josephson and Anna Marion.
In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris Jeffrey Vagle spoke about the USA Freedom Act, encryption backdoors, and how we should be discussing the balance between security and civil liberties.
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition have created the CTIC Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship to be awarded to JD students pursuing a joint degree in law and technology.
Penn Law’s Jeffrey Vagle, the Executive Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, talks about the current state of surveillance law, what legal developments to look to in the future, and the challenges of balancing security and civil liberties.
Two Penn Law teams won the Western Regional Competition of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition.
Jeffrey Vagle, Executive Director of CTIC, was part of two amicus briefs filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the case United States v. Gilberto Valle.
At a recent panel discussion, “Cybersecurity and Law Enforcement Back Doors,” two Penn experts on cybersecurity explored the little-understood legal and technical issues surrounding such questions. The panelists — Jeffrey Vagle, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Matt Blaze, a professor at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science — agreed that “back doors,” however well-intentioned, could wind up raising security risks.
The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has appointed Jeffrey Vagle as the Center’s first Executive Director.
Professor Yoo released a study that finds Europe lags behind the United States in high-speed broadband deployment, investment, and usage. The analysis also looks at the data disparities in the context of the different regulatory approaches in the U.S. and in Europe, finding that the EU’s telephone-era, public utility treatment of broadband has resulted in stagnation.
At a time when debates over technology policy are as significant as they are complex, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) are launching an innovative joint degree program whose goal is to graduate lawyers and engineers able to address issues at the intersection of law and technology.
In a video feature, Prof. Christopher Yoo discusses his work and research in technology policy.
Academic recognition usually takes longer, but at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, five years is more time than it took for the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) to establish itself as a leading academic center at the intersection of technology and public policy.
In a new paper, “Network Neutrality and the Need for a Technological Turn in Internet Scholarship,” Yoo calls for those engaged in debates over Internet regulation to develop a better grasp of the network’s underlying architecture and technology.