Susan Crawford: "The Responsive City: Using Data to Enhance Democracy"

CRCS Lunch Seminar

Date: Monday, April 21, 2014
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Place: 60 Oxford St., Room 330

Speaker: Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property, Harvard Law School (calendar 2014)

Title: The Responsive City: Using Data to Enhance Democracy

Abstract:
Cities and citizens around the world are using data around the world to thicken democratic engagement. Prof. Crawford will talk about her upcoming book ("The Responsive City," co-authored with Prof. Stephen Goldsmith of HKS) and the heroism it describes -- together with the many open policy questions it raises.

Bio:

Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at the Harvard Law School (2014). She is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a co-director of the Berkman Center. She is the author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and a contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She also served as a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation.

Ms. Crawford was formerly a (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010). As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010); one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011); and one of TIME Magazine’s Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech (2013).

Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.

Photo(s) from the Event: