ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law

Bridge the Divide Between Computer Science and Law

ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law

Bridge the Divide Between Computer Science and Law

2022

Program - Tuesday, November 1st

Session 0
9:00 am – 9:15 amOpening remarks
Session 1: Christopher S. Yoo, chair
9:15 am – 10:15 amInvited talk: The intersection of law and computer science: A report from the field

– Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
and NTIA Administrator
10:15 am – 10:45 amNon-Determinism and the Lawlessness of Machine Learning Code

– A. Feder Cooper (Cornell University)
– Jonathan Frankle (MIT and MosaicML)
– Christopher De Sa (Cornell University)
10:45 am – 11:15 amCoffee break
Session 2: Joan Feigenbaum, chair
11:15 am – 11:45 amUsing Zero-Knowledge to Reconcile Law Enforcement Secrecy and Fair Trial Rights in
Criminal Cases

– Dor Bitan (UC Berkeley)
– Ran Canetti (Boston University)
– Shafi Goldwasser (UC Berkeley)
– Rebecca Wexler (UC Berkeley)
11:45 am – 12:15 pmCan the Government Compel Decryption? Don’t Trust — Verify

– Aloni Cohen (University of Chicago)
– Sarah Scheffler (Princeton University)
– Mayank Varia (Boston University)
12:15 pm – 12:45 pmFormalizing Human Ingenuity: A Quantitative Framework for Copyright Law’s Substantial Similarity

– Sarah Scheffler (Princeton University)
– Eran Tromer (Columbia University)
– Mayank Varia (Boston University)
12:45 pm – 2:00 pmLunch
Session 3: Bryan Choi, chair
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmPanel Session: Bridging the Computer Science—Law Divide: Recommendations from the Front Lines

– Azer Bestavros (Boston University)
– Stacey Dogan (Boston University)
– Paul Ohm (Georgetown University)
– Andrew Sellars (Boston University)
Session 4: Sunoo Park, chair
3:30 pm – 4:00 pmCoffee break
4:00 pm – 4:30 pmMulti-Regulation Computing: Examining the Legal and Policy Questions That Arise
From Secure Multiparty Computation

– Julissa Milligan Walsh (Boston University)
– Mayank Varia (Boston University)
– Aloni Cohen (University of Chicago)
– Andrew Sellars (Boston University)
– Azer Bestavros (Boston University)
4:30 pm – 5:00 pmClassification Protocols with Minimal Disclosure

– Jinshuo Dong (Northwestern University)
– Jason Hartline (Northwestern University)
– Aravindan Vijayaraghavan (Northwestern University)

2022

Program - Wednesday, November 2nd

Session 5: James Grimmelmann, chair
9:00 am – 9:30 amThe Privacy-Fairness-Accuracy Frontier: A Computational Law & Economics Toolkit
for Making Algorithmic Tradeoffs

– Aniket Kesari (New York University)
9:30 am – 10:00 amBeyond Ads: Sequential Decision-Making Algorithms in Law and Public Policy

– Peter Henderson (Stanford University)
– Ben Chugg (Stanford University)
– Brandon Anderson (Stanford University)
– Daniel E. Ho (Stanford University)
10:00 am – 10:30 amCoffee break
Session 6: Ran Canetti, chair
10:30 am – 11:00 amBlind Justice: Algorithms and Neutrality in the Case of Redistricting

– Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
– Douglas Spencer (University of Colorado)
11:00 am – 11:30 amAlgorithmic Learning Foundations for Common Law

– Jason D. Hartline (Northwestern University)
– Daniel W. Linna, Jr. (Northwestern University)
– Liren Shan (Northwestern University)
– Alex Tang (Northwestern University)
11:30 am – 12:00 pmThe Case for Establishing a Collective Perspective to Address the Harms of Platform
Personalization

– Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero (Hebrew Univ.)
– Alexandra Wood (Harvard Univ.)
– Katrina Ligett (Hebrew Univ.)
12:00 pm – 1:15 pmLunch
Session 7: Paul Ohm, chair
1:15 pm – 1:45 pmSome Misconceptions about Software in the Copyright Literature

– Joshua Bloch (Carnegie Mellon University)
– Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley)
1:45 pm – 2:15 pmToward Architecture-Driven Interdisciplinary Research: Learnings from a Case Study of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

– Fabian Burmeister (University of Hamburg)
– Mickey Zar (Tel-Aviv University)
– Tilo Böhmann (University of Hamburg)
– Niva Elkin-Koren (Tel-Aviv University)
– Christian Kurtz (University of Hamburg)
– Wolfgang Schulz (Leibniz Institute for Media Research and Hans Bredow Institute)
2:15 pm – 2:45 pmProgramming Languages and Law: A Research Agenda

– James Grimmelmann (Cornell Tech. and Cornell Law School)
2:45 pm – 3:15 pmCoffee break
Session 8: Niva Elkin-Koren, chair
3:15 pm – 3:45 pmCryptography, Trust and Privacy: It’s Complicated

– Ero Balsa (Cornell Tech.)
– Sunoo Park (Cornell Tech.)
– Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech.)
3:45 pm – 4:15 pmRedress for Dark Patterns Privacy Harms? A Case Study on Consent Interactions

– Johanna Gunawan (Northeastern University)
– Christiana Santos (Utrecht University)
– Irene Kamara (Tilburg University)
Session 9
4:15 pm – 4:50 pmLightning-talk session
4:50 pm – 5:00 pmClosing remarks