Submissions are now open for the Law & Technology: Theory and Methods workshop series!
The first session will take place on January 31, 2025, at University of California, Irvine. Funded through the 2024 LSA Programming Grant, the series will grapple with the assumptions underpinning law and technology scholarship. Workshop chairs Ari Ezra Waldman (University of California, Irvine) and Ryan Calo (University of Washington) intend to gather a coalition of scholars to develop unifying methodological approaches for this dynamic field.
Together, participants will address the following questions:
- What are the assumptions underlying scholarship in law and technology writ large?
- Is there any consensus around those assumptions, or are scholars making their own assumptions ad hoc?
- What is the evidence for these assumptions?
- What do our background assumptions, if any, say about what law and technology scholarship is for?”
Professors Waldman and Calo aim to cultivate a collaborative environment for the workshop, which will center discussions and peer commentary, rather than presentations and Q&A sessions. In addition to sharing their own ongoing scholarship related to law and technology, participants will break into small groups to examine scholars’ beliefs and goals on the subject.
Academics already studying law and technology related questions are strongly encouraged to apply here by the November 1, 2024 deadline. Applications must include a current CV and a 300-to-500 word proposal. The proposal can be an abstract of a specific project, proposed answers to the above questions, methods for addressing those questions, or any other related ideas.