Institute for Information Law and Policy

The Institute for Information Law and Policy is New York Law School's home for the study of law, technology and civil liberties. Participants in the Institute aim not only to understand the interplay of law and technology but to influence its development. The Institute develops and applies theories of information and communication to analyze law and policy. It also seeks to design new technologies and systems that will best serve democratic values in the digital age.

Read the full description here.

In 2009 the IILP has began publishing an annual report detailing the Institute's major events throughout the previous academic year.  Click here to view the IILP 2011-2012 Annual Report.

Announcements

Listen to Institute Director Dan Hunter as he speaks about Gamification and his recent book For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business. Available here. 

Read Professor David Johnson recent article, Serving Justice with Conversational Law in the Futurist Magazine on Legal Expert Systems and the Future of Law. Available here.  

Check out Professor James Grimmelmann's recent testimony in front of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet in the hearing on New Technologies and Innovations in the Mobile and Online space, and the Implications for Public Policy. Watch the video here and read his written testimony here.

Recent Publication

Professor Dan Hunter recently published The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law, Intellectual Property, First Edition (Oxford University Press) (Dec 2011), available here. 

IILP In The News

Read Professor James Grimmelmann's recent article "Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation" on Ars Technica found  here.

Professor James Grimmelmann was recently quoted in three articles on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) found here, here, and here. 

Former IILP Student Research Fellow Jillian Raines ('12) recently published her law review note, The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2011 (DATA)  Using Open Data Principles to Revamp Spending Transparency Legislation in the NYLS Law Review. Her note about open government and open data, available here, was completed under the mentorship of Professor Beth Noveck.