The University of Colorado Law School is proud to announce that , associate professor of law and director of the Privacy Initiative at the , has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2023-2024.

“I am honored to have been selected as a Fulbright Scholar and am excited for the opportunity to engage with colleagues in Europe and better understand the EU’s significant new laws regulating AI,” said Professor Kaminski.

This is Professor Kaminski’s second Fulbright award. She received a 2018 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant to study comparative and transatlantic approaches to privacy in the EU. Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad. Scholars play a vital role in U.S. public diplomacy, establishing long-term relationships between people and nations. The benefits of a Fulbright Scholar Award extend beyond the individual recipient, raising the profile of their home institutions as well.

“We are thrilled that Margot Kaminski has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. Her scholarship and leadership bring so much to Colorado Law. I, along with her students, fellow faculty, and colleagues, look forward to the impact her research and engagement will have both abroad and at the University of Colorado Boulder,” said , dean of Colorado Law.

Professor Kaminski specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Recently, her work has examined autonomous systems, including AI. Her academic work has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, among others, and she frequently writes for the popular press.

Professor Kaminski is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. While at Yale, she co-founded the (MFIA), a law school clinic dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fairbanks, Alaska. She worked at a literary agency prior to law school and has worked at Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2011-2014 Kaminski served as the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an intellectual center addressing the implications of new information technologies for law and society. She remains an affiliated fellow of the Yale ISP. From 2014-2017, Kaminski was an Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Alumni include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 78 MacArthur Fellows, and thousands of leaders and world-renowned experts in academia and many other fields across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

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Widely recognized for its intellectual diversity and originality, the faculty at Colorado Law encompasses an array of prominent legal scholars who are widely cited, both in academia and throughout the national media landscape. We invite you to catch up on the latest faculty publications and media mentions with this weekly round up, provided by the extraordinary .

Faculty Publications:

Aamir Abdullah, , 51 Colo. Law. 8 (2022). 

Margot Kaminski, , SSRN.com, Aug. 23, 2022 (forthcoming, 103 Boston U. L. Rev. (2023)) (recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Artificial Intelligence - Law, Policy, & Ethics eJournal, Consumer Law eJournal, Data Science & Analytics eJournal, InfoSciRN: Artificial Intelligence (Topic), InfoSciRN: Data Protection (Topic), InfoSciRN: Information Control (Topic), InfoSciRN: Information Privacy (Topic), InfoSciRN: Other Artificial Intelligence (Sub-Topic), Information Policy & Ethics eJournal, Information Privacy Law eJournal, Information Use eJournal, LSN: Consumer Privacy (Sub-Topic), LSN: Online Privacy (Sub-Topic), LSN: Regulation of Information & Privacy Issues Involving Consumers (Topic) and Libraries & Information Technology eJournal).

Notable Mentions:

Aya Gruber, , Denver 9 News, Aug. 19, 2022.

Aya Gruber, Kevin Cole, , CrimProf Blog, Aug. 21, 2022 (Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law #2).

Dale Hatfield, Silicon Flatirons Center, John Eggerton, , NextTv.com, Aug. 24, 2022. 

Margot Kaminski, Lawrence Solum, , Legal Theory Blog, Aug. 26, 2022.

Ben Levin, , University of Virginia, Aug. 26, 2022. 

Douglas Spencer, Harry Stevens, Artur Galocha & Adrian Blanco, , The Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2022.

Mark Squillace,   S&P Global Commodity Insights, Aug. 19, 2022.

Mark Squillace, Conrad Swanson, , Denver Post, Aug. 20, 2022.

Mark Squillace, Sam Metz & Felicia Fonseca, , Associated Press, Aug. 15, 2022 (reprints include the Washington Post).

Mark Squillace, Heather Richards,  E&E News Energywire, Aug. 24, 2022 (VPN logon required). 

Mark Squillace, Bobby Magill, , Bloomberg Law News, Aug. 24, 2022 (VPN logon or Bloomberg logon required). 

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Margot E. Kaminski

Margot E. Kaminski, associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, received the 10th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPM) Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. This award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for data protection authorities abroad.

Kaminski and her coauthor, Gianclaudio Malgieri, will present their winning paper, “,” to policymakers, academics, and industry privacy professionals at the U.S. Senate in February.

"U.S. lawmakers at both the federal and state level have recently proposed using 'algorithmic impact assessments' to mitigate AI bias and discrimination. Our paper provides a close look at how this policy tool might work in Europe, including significant suggestions for policymakers in other countries."

The paper addresses how a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) links the two faces of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) approach to algorithmic accountability: individual rights and systemic collaborative governance. Kaminski and Malgieri address the relationship between DPIAs and individual transparency rights, and propose that impact assessments link the GDPR’s two methods of governing algorithmic decision making by both providing systemic governance and serving as an important “suitable safeguard” (Art. 22) of individual rights.

"U.S. lawmakers at both the federal and state level have recently proposed using 'algorithmic impact assessments' to mitigate AI bias and discrimination," Kaminski said. "Our paper provides a close look at how this policy tool might work in Europe, including significant suggestions for policymakers in other countries."

Kaminski joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2017 and serves as director of the Privacy Initiative at Colorado Law’s . She specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Her recent work has examined autonomous systems, including AI, robots, and drones (UAS). In 2018, she researched comparative and transatlantic approaches to data privacy in the Netherlands and Italy as a recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant.

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