Law of AI and Smart Machines

Theodore Franklin Claypoole, Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines: Understanding A.I. and the Legal Impact (2018)

From the book description: β€œHow will the law change to accommodate the role of artificial intelligence in society and how much of that change has occurred already? When machines make their own decisions with financial impact, who receives credit or blame? This new guide provides an in-depth examination of how artificial intelligence has evolved, how…

Words that Created the Internet

Jeff Kosseff, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet (2019)

From Eric Goldman (Professor of Law, Santa Clara University): β€œMost people benefit from Section 230 every hour, but are unaware it even exists. Jeff Kosseff’s new book provides the first-ever comprehensive history of this monumentally important law. The book’s lucid and reader-friendly style will fully engage Section 230 newcomers; while the book’s many never-before-publicized details…

Cult of the Constitution

Mary Anne Franks, The Cult of the Constitution (2019)

From Danielle Citron (Professor of Law, Boston University Law Schoool): β€œMary Anne Franks’s book–in the most thoughtful and engrossing way–takes on central problems of our time. How can we reconcile the Constitution’s aspirations with its founders’ experiences and commitments? Is a document written for the most privileged up to the task of a 21st digital…

Nobodys Victim

Carrie Goldberg, Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls (2019)

FromΒ New York Times Book Review: β€œ[A] memoir doubling as a rallying cry for privacy justice. . . . Goldberg chronicles in Nobody’s Victim her battle for justice in a tone that is both take-no-prisoners and warmly gregarious . . . The cases she narrates are gut-wrenching, and her conversational approach lightens what could otherwise be…

Between Truth and Power

Julie E. Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (2019)

From Joseph Turow (Robert Lewis Shayon Chair Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania): β€œJulie Cohen presents a highly knowledgeable, nuanced analysis of the challenges that the twenty-first century’s digital environment presents to the legal and regulatory apparatus, which was built in the industrial age.Β  Every page holds important insights, and every chapter…

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Samantha Barbas, Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Notorious Scandal Magazine (2018)

From the Wall Street Journal: β€œIn β€˜Confidential Confidential,’ law professor Samantha Barbas recounts the inside story of the β€˜little magazine that could’ with drama, humor, and verve…Ms. Barbas paces her terrific story well, and the book ends with her cogent analysis of Confidential’s larger significance.”