Featured Address - 9:05 a.m.

• Brett M. Frischmann - Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University School of Law

Panel I - CONSUMER PRIVACY IN THE ONLINE ECOSYSTEM - 9:25 a.m

• Scott Jordan - Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
• Charlotte Tschider - Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• David Vladeck - Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law
• Discussion and Q&A
    

Panel II - PROTECTING CONSUMERS THROUGH COMPETITION, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT - 10:35 a.m.

• Anjanette H. Raymond - Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Law
• Greg Day - Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia Law; Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School, the Information Society Project
• Liz Coll - Connected Consumer
• Creola Johnson - Professor of Law, Ohio State University Law
• Nathalie Martin - Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law
• Łukasz Grzejdziak, PhD - Professor of Law, University of Lodz
• Discussion and Q&A
   

Panel III - CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING IN A TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN WORLD - 12:35 p.m.

• • Dr. M.R. Leiser - Professor of Law, Leiden University
• Jeannie Marie Paterson - Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Law
• Dr. Alžběta Krausová - Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Chair of the Czech Republic’s AI Observatory & Forum
• Shaun Spencer - Associate Dean, University of Massachusetts School of Law
• Kyle Langvardt - Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law
• Daniel Susser - Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University
• Discussion and Q&A

FEATURED SPEAKER

Brett Frischmann
Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University

A renowned scholar in intellectual property and Internet law, Professor Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova School of Law. Before joining Villanova, he was the director of the Cardozo Intellectual Property and Information Law Program and Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School. And prior to his appointment at Cardozo Law, Professor Frischmann was on the faculty of the Loyola University Chicago, School of Law from 2002 to 2010.

He is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, an affiliated faculty member of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino. Professor Frischmann most recently served as the Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy at Princeton University’s Center for Information and Technology Policy.

PANEL 1: CONSUMER PRIVACY IN THE ONLINE ECOSYSTEM

Scott Jordan
Professor of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine

Scott Jordan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research has focused on Internet quality of service issues, including traffic management and resource allocation, in both wired and wireless networks. His current research interests are Internet policy issues, including net neutrality, privacy, interconnection, data caps, zero rating, and device attachment.

Scott received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, he served as an IEEE Congressional Fellow, working in the United States Senate on communications policy issues. In 2014-2016, Scott served as the Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, advising on technological issues across the Commission, including the 2015 Open Internet Order and the 2016 Broadband Privacy Order.

Charlotte Tschider
Assistant Professor of Law - Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Charlotte Tschider is an Assistant Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a member of the Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy. Professor Tschider regularly advises organizations on global privacy and cybersecurity matters, with a specific expertise in the medical device sector on artificial intelligence and global data strategy. Prior to her time in academia, Tschider led technology and legal teams at a variety of large private and public organizations for nearly two decades, including Target Corporation, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, and Medtronic, Inc., and has consulted with many more on healthcare and information technology topics.

Professor Tschider is the author of INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY LAW IN PRACTICE (Wolters Kluwer), now in its second edition, and CYBERSECURITY LAW (West Publishing). Professor Tschider’s academic writing have appeared or are forthcoming in the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, IOWA LAW REVIEW, BYU LAW REVIEW, DENVER LAW REVIEW, the OXFORD JOURNAL OF LAW & BIOSCIENCES, amongst others. She has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and has been featured in a variety of news media publications, including USA TODAY, FORBES, THE HILL, STAT, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, and MORNING CONSULT.

David Vladeck
Professor of Law - Georgetown Law

David Vladeck is a professor at Georgetown Law and serves as the Faculty Director for the Law Center’s Center on Privacy and Technology. Professor Vladeck has extensive experience in public interest and has briefed and argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. From 2009 to 2012, Professor Vladeck served as the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. He is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council and on the Board of the National Consumers Law Center. Professor Vladeck frequently testifies before Congress and writes on administrative law, First Amendment, consumer protection, privacy, and access to justice issues

PANEL II: PROTECTING CONSUMERS THROUGH COMPETITION, REGULATION, AND ENFORCEMENT

Anjanette H. Raymond
Associate Professor of Business - Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; Associate Professor of Law - Maurer Law School Indiana University

Anjanette (Angie) Raymond is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Law and Ethics, at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Maurer Law School (Indiana). She is currently a Visiting Fellow in International Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London as well as a Professor in the International Business Law Program at the University of Navarra, Spain and lectures on international arbitration at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Angie has written widely in international commercial law, international commercial arbitration, and international secured transactions in such publications as the Harvard Negotiation Law Review (forthcoming), Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, and the American Review of International Arbitration. As well as several book chapters, such as ‘How May International Standards Assist the Law Reform in England?’ in Availability of Credit and Secured Transactions in a Time of Crisis (Cambridge) and UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) Commentary (Beck). Angie is currently an invited member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Online Dispute Resolution Working Group, Non-Governmental Organization (Institute of International Commercial Law (IICL))) and was the former research assistant to the US delegate to UNCITRAL and the Reporter for the revision of the sales and leases articles of the Uniform Commercial Code. Angie is also an active Mooter, co-coaching a team to the finalist award at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Greg Day
Assistant Professor of Law - University of Georgia Law; Visiting Fellow - Yale Law School, the Information Society Project

Greg Day is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and holds a courtesy appointment in the University of Georgia School of Law. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. His research focuses on the intersections of competition, technology, innovation, and privacy. Representative works rely on analyses of antitrust or intellectual property laws, or both. One can find his scholarship in journals such as the Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Fordham Law Review. He is also recognized for his knowledge of the art market and the laws governing it.

Liz Coll
Connected Consumer

Liz Coll is a consumer policy analyst and founder of Connected Consumers, a strategic advice consultancy that puts the digital consumer first. She has advised national governments, financial institutions, consumer organizations, global think tanks and international standards bodies on the impact of powerful, social technology on consumers and markets. She is currently leading a UK class action against Google for breach of competition law and excessive pricing in the Google PlayStore.

Liz established the first global digital programme at Consumers International, after leading digital consumer policy work at Citizens Advice and at Consumer Futures, the UK’s statutory consumer body. She is a regular speaker, panelist and author on core consumer issues including e-commerce, the platform economy, consumer data, IoT, and AI. She began her career at the London School for Economics’ Centre for Analysis Risk and Regulation and from there joined sustainability non-profit consultancy Forum for the Future. She has a BA in Politics and Government from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Political Sociology from the LSE.
www.connectedconsumers.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/in/lizcoll

Professor Nathalie Martin
Professor of Law - University of New Mexico Law

Nathalie Martin is the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at University of New Mexico School of Law, where she regularly teaches consumer law, bankruptcy, contracts, secured transactions, and other UCC classes. She also has taught in the Economic Justice. She has written a number of articles about payday and title loans and many other topics, which are listed at http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/martin/publications.php. She has done two empirical studies of payday lending, as well as one study of the credit habits of undocumented persons in New Mexico. Her current research involves tribal payday lending in the context of bankruptcy. She has also recently written on debt inequality and race. Prior to teaching, she was in private practice in Philadelphia and Boston, where she specialized in Chapter 11 reorganization. Professor Martin was the American Bankruptcy Institute Scholar in residence for the Fall of 2005. The endowed chair that she occupies, the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law, is one of the only chairs in the country dedicated to scholarly pursuits in the consumer law area.

Creola Johnson
Professor of Law - Ohio State University Law

Creola Johnson is the President’s Club Professor of Law, at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she has been teaching since 1999. She teaches Debtor-Creditor Rights, Consumer Bankruptcy Law, Consumer Law, Consumer Protection Seminar, Sales, and Secured Transactions. Professor Johnson’s scholarship and advocacy is in the field of predatory consumer transactions, including payday loans and subprime mortgages. She is the author of several articles, including the following two most recent ones: Crushed By COVID-19 Medical Bills, Coronavirus Victims Need Debt Relief Under the Bankruptcy Code and Workers’ Compensation Laws,125 Penn St. L. Rev. 453 (2021); Relief for Student Loan Borrowers Victimized by “Relief” Companies Masquerading as Legitimate Help, 11 UC Irvine L. Rev. 105 (2020). She’s also the author of the book: Is a Law Degree Still Worth the Price: It Depends on What the Law School Has to Offer You (Carolina Academic Press 2014).

Łukasz Grzejdziak, PhD
Professor of Law - University of Lodz; Senior Visiting Scholar - Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola Chicago School of Law

Łukasz Grzejdziak, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź, Poland and an Associated Member, close academic collaborator and Coordinator of the State Aid Law area at the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw. Currently, he works as a M. Bekker Program Fellow and a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago on a research project devoted to application of competition law to non-horizontal mergers.
His area of expertise is Polish, EU, US and comparative competition law and public business law. Professor Grzejdziak participated in numerous international scholarships, including the Senior Fulbright Award and the Kosciuszko Foundation Grant. He worked as a researcher and a Member of the Centre for European Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is an author of numerous publications within the area of Competition Law including a triply prized monograph on State Aid for Services of General Economic Interest.
Łukasz Grzejdziak gained significant practical experience within the scope of State Aid as well as Polish and EU Competition Law while working as a competition law expert. He has been engaged in numerous antitrust, merger and state aid proceedings before the Polish and EU Competition Authorities. He led tens of workshops and trainings on State Aid and Antitrust Law for civil servants and for businesses.

PANEL III - CONSUMER DECISION MAKING IN A TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN WORLD

Dr. M.R. Leiser
Professor of Law - Leiden University
Dr. M.R. Leiser is Assistant Professor at the Center for Law and Digital Technologies, research fellow of the Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Pluralist World research program, and thesis coordinator for the Advanced Masters in Digital Technologies at Leiden University. He has written extensively on fake news, disinformation & platform regulation and has a book on the topic forthcoming via Cambridge University Press. His recent research focuses on ‘dark patterns’ or the manipulative design of user interfaces and system architecture to bring about a change in user behavior that would not have been possible otherwise.

Jeannie Marie Paterson
Professor of Law and Co-Director Centre of AI and Digital Ethics - University of Melbourne

Jeannie Marie Paterson is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. Jeannie is the founding co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics in the Faculty of Engineering and Information technology. Jeannie specializes in the fields of consumer protection law, consumer credit and banking law, and AI and the law. Jeannie is particularly interested in protection for consumers experiencing vulnerability, and regulatory design for emerging technologies that are fair, safe, effective and accountable.

Dr. Alžběta Krausová
Legal Scholar - Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Chair of the Czech Republic’s AI Observatory & Forum

Dr. Alžběta Krausová is a legal scholar at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Czech Republic’s AI Observatory & Forum, a founder and Chair of the SOLAIR Conference (Society, Law, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics), an external lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague, an executive editor of The Lawyer Quarterly, and a public speaker. She has acted as a member of the Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies at the European Commission, a member of OECD’s network of experts ONE AI, and an expert in negotiating the UNESCO Draft Recommendation on Ethics of AI. Her research focuses on legal aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, and merging technology with organic life.

Shaun Spencer
Associate Dean - University of Massachusetts School of Law

Shaun Spencer is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor, and Director of Legal Skills at the University of Massachusetts School of Law. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts, he taught at Harvard Law School and Boston College Law School, where he earned his LL.M and J.D., respectively. Dean Spencer teaches and publishes on surveillance law and data protection law, and his recent focus has been the interplay between data protection and consumer protection issues and the First Amendment.

Kyle Langvardt
Professor of Law - University of Nebraska College of Law

Kyle Langvardt is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law and a Faculty Fellow at the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center. He is a First Amendment scholar who focuses on the Internet's implications for free expression both as a matter of constitutional doctrine and as a practical reality. His written work addresses new and confounding policy issues including online content moderation, tech addiction, the collapse of traditional gatekeepers in online media and 3D-printable weapons. His most recent major papers have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Fordham Law Review, the Journal of Free Speech Law, Yale Law Review Forum, the George Mason Law Review, and Lawfare. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Earlham College, where he graduated with College and Departmental Honors, and he received his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law. After law school, Professor Langvardt practiced at the Chicago, Illinois office of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (now Locke Lord LLP). He went on to teach as a lecturer in the Department of Business Law at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and later as a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where he received James T. Barnes, Sr. Memorial Faculty Scholar Award in 2019.

Daniel Susser
Professor - Penn State University
A philosopher by training, Daniel works at the intersection of technology, ethics, and policy. His research aims to highlight normative issues in the design, development, and use of digital technologies, and to clarify conceptual issues that stand in the way of addressing them through law and other forms of governance. At the moment, he is especially focused on questions about privacy, online influence, and automated decision-making. Daniel is the Haile Family Early Career Professor and assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences & Technology, research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, and affiliated faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Penn State University.