Internet Law Works in Progress

ILWIP 2026

Saturday, March 7

Verizon Executive Education Center
Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044

All presenters will have a 20 minute block for their presentation and questions combined. The timekeeper will provide 3-minute and 1-minute warnings for the overall block. The timekeeper will provide 3-minute and 1-minute warnings for the end of a recommended 13-minute presentation time, unless you request otherwise. The end of the recommended presentation time will not be strictly enforced, but the end of the 20-minute block will.

We will provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and coffee, tea, and water will be available in the second floor gallery throughout the day. For additional options, the Cafe at Cornell Tech, located immediately across campus way in the Bloomberg Center, serves specialty coffee and other beverages and an assortment of hot and cold breakfast, lunch, and snack items.

Schedule

8:30 to 9:00: Welcome

Breakfast available in the second floor gallery

9:00 to 10:30: Session 1

Room 215: Copyright and Patent

Ben Sobel, A Philosophy-of-Language Approach to Bad Derivative-Works Cases
Mary LaFrance, Enforcing the Digital Audio Transmission Mandate
Zachary Cooper, The Innovation Paradox: How New Forms of Media Confound Copyright
Derek Bambauer, Behind the Patent Veil

Room 225: AI Regulation I

Ben Green, The Limits of Auditing Frameworks for Public Sector Algorithms: A Case Study of the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System (MiDAS)
Ronald J. Coleman, Dignitary AI Confrontation in the States
Jane Bambauer, Using LLMs to Score News and Opinion Media Based on Their Past Predictions
Michelle du Plessis, The Moderation Quadrants: Mapping Control, Decision-Making, and the Paradox of Decentralized Content Moderation

Room 315: Cybersecurity and Data

Chris Hoofnagle, The EU’s Cybersecurity Framework: what it is, what it means
Martina Ferracane, The Geopolitics of Data Flows
Dani Villardell, Why “Personal” is not Relative: The Technical Pitfalls of SRB v. EDPS
Mehtab Khan, Access to Datasets

Room 325: Privacy I

Anqi Wang, It’s Not All About Privacy: the Hidden Interests for Data Protection
Attamongkol (“Atta”) Tantratian, HIPAA Without Border: Regulatory Symbolism in Thailand
Carson Lloyd, Smart Cities Under the Lens: The Mosaic Theory and State Constitutional Privacy
Jennifer Huddleston, In Defense of Personalization

10:30 to 11:00: Break

Refreshments available in the second floor gallery

11:00 to 12:30: Session 2

Room 215: Game Theory

Cortelyou Kenney, A New Answer To The Game Theory Game “Chicken”
Eric Goldman, The Mirror Theory of the Internet
Michal Gal, Hub Power and Hub(uses): Power Dynamics in Platform Ecosystems
Mailyn Fidler, Internet Fragmentation’s Outward Turn

Room 225: AI Regulation II

Jessica Silbey, AI Slop
María P. Angel, The Legal Life of Trust: What Is Lost with “Trustworthy AI”
Michal Shur-Ofry, Our Future’s Past: AI Governance for SafeguardingC Collective Memory
Sebastian Benthall, Multi-stakeholder Governance for AI Fiduciary Duties

Room 315: Speech and Data

Marc Blitz, XR, AI, and the Doctrinal Distinctiveness of Solitary and Self-Shaping Speech
Mihir Kshirsagar, Zoning the Digital Playground: Age-Appropriate Design Codes
Jon Penney, The Future of Chilling Effects and How to Stop It
Lila Greenberg, The Demand for Bullshit

Room 325: Families and Children

Andrea Matwyshyn, Homicideware
Miranda Wei, Combating AI-Enabled Child Sexual Abuse
Irina Manta, Swipe Left: How Dating Apps Betray Users and Protect Predators
Riana Pfefferkorn, Advanced Persistent Teenagers

12:30 to 1:30: Lunch

Lunch available in the second floor gallery

1:30 to 2:45: Session 3

Room 215: People and Publicity

Annie Dorsen, Preventing Digital Likeness Abuse
Alex Roberts, Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & the Construction of Self
Kat Geddes, The Inconsentability of Deepfakes

Room 225: AI Regulation III

David Levine, Trade Secrets with Secrets
Peter Yu, A Law and Policy Matrix for Global AI Norm-Setting
Kenny Peng, From Feeds to Trails

Room 315: NLP

Brandon Liu, Hallucite: Detecting AI-Generated Legal Citations
Talia Schwartz-Maor, Predicting Successful Online Divorce Negotiations via Text Analysis

Room 325: Privacy II

Rhiannon Adams, Remedying Abusive Surveillance
Yunfan Mo, Eroding boundaries? Withering informational self-determination under the GDPR: perspectives from AI model training
Farzaneh Badiei, Internet-Enabled AI and the Rewriting of End-User Access

2:45 to 3:30: Break

Refreshments available in the second floor gallery

3:30 to 5:00: Session 4

Room 215: Intermediaries

Amanda Reid, New Digital Divides: How State Regulations Create Digital Exclusion
Agustina Del Campo, An alternative to risks and immunity as the only 2 forms of intermediary liability
Michael Goodyear, Protecting the Queer Internet
Gunn Jiravuttipong, Varieties of Cloud Capital: The Law and Political Economy of Global Data Center Investment

Room 225: AI Theory

Zachary Catanzaro, The Dead Law Theory: The Perils of Simulated Simulation
Shira Gur-Arieh, Ambiguity Collapse in Legal Contexts
Chris Sprigman, Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI
Angela Zhang, The Sixth Layer: The Legal Infrastructure for China’s Regulation of Physical Artificial Intelligence

Room 315: Empirical Studies

Felix Chen, Measuring the Impact of Google AI Overviews and WebGuide on User Search Behavior
Dan Bateyko, Hunting Zombies: Scaling Reliable LLM Screening of Unconstitutional Laws
Qin Sky Ma, The Dual Impact of AI on Judicial Efficiency
Rebecca Wexler, “Witness”: Compulsory Process at the Founding

Room 325: AI Liability

Jonathan Cedarbaum, Does Product Liability Offer a Route Around Section 230?
Jess Miers, Crisis Machines
Artur Pericles L. Monteiro, Democratic Friction
Vivek Krishnamurthy, The Sovereign AI Myth

5:00 to 6:00: Dinner

Dinner available in the second floor gallery

6:00 to 9:00: Game Night

Games and [REDACTED] in the second floor gallery.