Events

January 28, 20222
Systems For, Systems Against: How Data-driven Decisions Go Wrong for Disabled People
Hosted in collaboration with the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), this panel discussion featured an interdisciplinary group of experts who discussed how public and private entities’ use of data-driven decision-making impacts health, employment, education and the criminal legal system. Nasser Eledroos, managing director of CLIC, moderated the discussion. Lydia X.Z. Brown ’18, policy counsel with the Center for Democracy & Technology, was among the panelists. The roundtable included Katherine Grainger ’02, Keesha Gaskins-Nathan ’99 and Rahsaan Hall ’98.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

CLIC Summer Series
Scrutinizing Surveillance: Discussions in Technology and Justice

How do innovations in surveillance technology impact marginalized communities? Are the risks involved in the implementation of COVID-related contact tracing apps worth the reward? How does big data impact policing strategies on campuses and in the community?

This summer CLIC hosted a series of expert-driven conversations about the future of surveillance technology. Our distinguished panelists included Northeastern Law graduates and faculty, as well as industry experts and community organizers working across the country in policy, technology, academia and more. Each discussion invited the audience to pose questions that address the question: What can be done to ensure that technology doesn’t perpetuate systems of discrimination and injustice?

August 4, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Zoom
Big Data and Public Safety: Protest, Policing and People
This panel was produced in partnership with the law school’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration and the Program on Human Right and the Global Economy.

July 28, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Zoom
COVID, Contract Tracing Apps and Public Health
This panel was produced as part of CLIC's Summer Series in partnership with the Center for Health Policy and Law.

July, 21, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Zoom
Race, Surveillance Technology and Justice

September 22, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
2020 Distinguished Lecture Series
Ryan Calo, Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Law; Faculty Co-Director, University of Washington Tech Policy Lab
The Automated Administrative State

October 6, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
CLIC Panel: The Great Firewall of America? Unraveling the TikTok Affair
A lunch-hour discussion about global data privacy regulation, the innovation economy and IP/technology law.

October 14, 2020
Robert D. Klein University Lecture Featuring Professor Jessica Silbey
Professor Jessica Silbey was selected as the 56th Robert D. Klein Lecturer. She delivered her talk, “Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age,” on Wednesday, October 14. The lecture was be live-streamed from Northeastern's Egan Research Center.
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October 16, 2020
Annual CLIC Conference
CLIC’s 2020 conference took a close look at the intersection between technology, intellectual property, innovation and democracy.

October 27, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Zoom
2020 Distinguished Lecture Series
DR. JOAN DONOVAN, Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The True Costs of Misinformation: Producing Moral and Technical Order in a Time of Pandemonium

November 10, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Zoom
2020 Distinguished Lecture Series
DR. KATE DARLING, Expert, Robot Ethics; Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab
The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots

November 13, 2020
Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop
This year, we honored our friend, mentor and colleague Joel R. Reidenberg, who passed away in April 2020. The workshop, now in its fourth year and generously sponsored by Microsoft, offered privacy scholars from diverse fields the opportunity to receive extensive, constructive commentary on their works in progress.

November 13, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Book Launch Discussion
In cooperation with the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, CLIC will co-sponsor a book launch discussion with Ignacio Cofone, editor of The Right to be Forgotten: A Canadian and Comparative Perspective. Professor Woodrow Hartzog and Professor Lisa Austin of the University of Toronto will provide comments. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Claudia Haupt.

February 25, 2021 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Lost and Found: Intellectual Property, Race and Restorative Justice
Please join us for an interdisciplinary conversation exploring the racial gap in invention and patenting in the past and present, considering how IP regimes have been used to exploit BIPOC intellect and creatorship and what is needed to reverse this historic inequity and use IP regimes to develop a more equitable society. 

March 19, 2021 | 9:00 - 5:00 PM | Zoom
Northeastern University Law Review Symposium: The Many Faces of Health
CLIC is proud to sponsor the 2021 Northeastern University Law Review Symposium. Public health can present itself in many ways. In the wake of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 global pandemic and the racial reckoning in United States, many of these presentations of public health are impacted and implicated. The symposium will discuss the different presentations and consider different approaches to understanding and addressing these issues at the federal, state, and local levels.

Legal and Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence 2021
Northeastern University's School of Law and Roux Institute were pleased to partner with the Center for Law + Innovation at the University of Maine School of Law to host a virtual conference a virtual conference that will bring together leading attorneys, data scientists, business executives and academics from the US and EU to discuss law, policy, ethics and careers.

The one day virtual conference was part of Maine Law’s 2021 Information Privacy Summer Institute. Northeastern Law Professor Woodrow Hartzog served as a panel chair for the Privacy and Policy Responses to AI session.
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2019 - 2020 IP/Tech Lecture Series: This is What Democracy Looks Like
CLIC presents “This is what democracy looks like!” — a yearlong program featuring guest speakers, workshops and tech-focused events exploring what citizenship, community and belonging mean in the digital age.

ART Artist-in-Residency Program
To ignite a conversation about the relationship among civil rights, civil liberties, technology, intellectual property and innovation, CLIC has launched Art, Resistance and Technology (ART), an evocative artist residency program.

Are secrets uniquely human? Our private lives are mediated and recorded by digital devices. Where are our secrets now? How will intelligent systems of the future process the data we leave behind?

CLIC’s first artist-in-residence, Sarah Newman, provoked conversations about these very questions at “The Future of Secrets,” a September kick-off event for her year in residency. Newman, a senior researcher at metaLAB at Harvard and a fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, is challenging the Northeastern Law community through a series of installations at the intersection of technology and society.

June 17 | 12:00 PM | Live via Zoom
Connecting with NUSL Centers and Projects Around Racism and Police Brutality
The Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC); Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC); Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE), Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and NuLawLab invite Northeastern Law students to a virtual meeting to discuss the ways the School of Law's centers and projects can collaborate with and support students in our responses to ongoing structural racism and police brutality.

June 12, 2020 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Live via Zoom
CLIC Moral Labyrinth Virtual Workshop with CLIC Artist-in-Residence Sarah Newman and special guest Mutale Nkonde
Reflections on Ethics, Technology and the Law During the COVID Pandemic
This interactive workshop provided an opportunity to grapple with the ethical, technological and legal questions that are arising, and continue to arise, during this pandemic. Co-led by CLIC Artist-in-Residence Sarah Newman and special guest Mutale Nkonde, this workshop facilitated discussion and reflection on some of the most pressing and difficult questions we face both individually and as a society.

February 12, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch & Learn Speaker Event

Forrester Liddle
Senior Director of Intellectual Property, Jounce Therapeutics (Cambridge, Mass.)
FOCUS: IP and Life Sciences

February 11, 2020 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM | 220 Dockser Hall
Panel discussion: How Should Countries Regulate Privacy?
featuring
Fumio Shimpo

Commissioner for International Academic Exchange of the Personal Information Protection Commission and Associate Professor, Institute of Library and Information Science, University of Tsukuba (Japan)

January 29, 2020
CLIC Open House and Trivia Night
The Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity hosted its second annual Domain Day open house in January, a fun-filled night of music and trivia in celebration of the yearly expansion of the copyright public domain.

January 13, 2020 
CLIC ART Artist-in-Residence Distinguished Lecture with Sarah Newman
CLIC’s first artist in residence, Sarah Newman, a senior researcher at metaLAB at Harvard and a fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, is challenging the Northeastern Law community through a series of installations at the intersection of technology and society

January 8, 2020
Lunch & Learn Speaker Event
Peter Castellano ’03, Innovation Lead, Relationship Manager/Business Development, Nestle Skin Health and NY Chapter Organizer of Hacking Health (New York, New York)
Focus: HealthTech/Life Sciences/Innovation

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Lunch & Learn Speaker Event
Jamal Stockton, E’01, VP, Head of Legal Innovation and Technology, Fidelity Investments (Boston)
Focus: Technology/Innovation/Legal Operations

Monday, December 2, 2019
“This is What Democracy Looks Like” IP/Tech Lecture Series: Patents, Global Healthcare and Access to Medicines
Film screening of Dylan Mohan Gray’s documentary, “Fire in the Blood,” in honor of World AIDS Day

Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Lunch & Learn Speaker Event
Timothy Hogan, VP, Chief Compliance Officer, Boston Children's Hospital (Boston)
Focus: Health Care/Life Science Compliance & Ethics

November 5, 2019
The Original Sin of Trademark Law: Failure to Function
Sponosored by Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) and the Boston Patent Law Association

Wednesday October 23, 2019
“This is What Democracy Looks Like” IP/Tech Lecture Series:  Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property
with
Jane Anderson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, New York University

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | 42 Dockser Hall
This is What Democracy Looks Like” IP/Tech Lecture Series: Race and Intellectual Property
with
Anjali Vats, Assistant Professor in Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College

Tuesday, September 17 | 6:00 PM | Dockser Hall
The Future of Secrets
Official Kickoff of CLIC’s ART (Art Resistance Technology) Residency featuring Sarah Newman 

CLIC's ART Residency invites noted artists to campus to spark, provoke and foster conversations about the intersection of technology and innovation with civil rights, civil liberties and the public interest. In September, we will host our first artist-in-residence, Sarah Newman.

Sarah Newman is a senior researcher and principal at metaLAB at Harvard and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. As a researcher expressing ideas through installation art, her work engages with technology’s role in human experience. Learn more about Newman’s work here. Join us for the launch of CLIC’s ART Residency and Newman’s first installation, The Future of Secrets. For more information, please contact clic@northeastern.edu.

The Future of Secrets Art Exhibition: 
Tuesday, September 17
5:00 - 7:00 PM

Wednesday, September 18
9:00 - 4:00 PM

September 12, 2019 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM | 120 Knowles Conference Room
Lunch & Learn Speaker Event
Andrew Droste ’15, Board Advisory Specialist, Russell Reynolds Associates (Seattle, Washington)
Focus: Environmental, Social Corporate Governance (ESG)