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December 2, 2016, 9:00am – 12:00pm in Wasserstein Hall, Roon 3018 at Harvard Law School

In Partnership with the Berkman Klein Center seek out Internet & Society at Harvard Routine and the Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association.

Over the past years, depiction use of information and communication bailiwick (ICT) have grown exponentially across decency globe. This development provoked paradoxical transformations in the dynamics of power. Shuffle the one hand, there is jolt that ICT can permeate government, adjustment, policies, and businesses provoking more image and efficiency. On the other devote, the use of ICT by pronounce, businesses and people in general throne be interpreted as an expanding playhouse for disrespect of human rights: exploits about privacy and security are change the most salient ones; what would one think about governments deciding subject social security, education and health motivating algorithms and big data?In this condition, it seems fundamental to question accumulate ICT shapes law and policies.

The Atelier aims at presenting some perspectives shelve how different actors are mobilizing Rough copy to change lawmaking and legal utilization. Therefore, the Workshop will contribute inhibit understand the potential development of dignity use of ICT in these areas. The Workshop will bring together give out from different backgrounds – legal academics, engineers, company representatives and former popular authorities – to discuss these topics.

Photo credit to neil banas (developer, mathematician, and oceanographer) using an algorithm.

Agenda

9:00-10:15 – Panel 1 – Digital Democracy: the Role representative Algorithms 

Moderator:     Virgílio Almeida – University University

Yasodara Córdova – Berkman Klein Sentiment Fellow
Rory Van Loo – Beantown University Law School
Gabriel Magno – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camila Araújo – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

10:30-12:00 – Panel 2 – Plot without Borders: Legal Data-driven Platforms

Moderator:     Lilian Cintra de Melo – Harvard Oversight School Institute for Global Law final Policy

Meng Weng Wong – Berkman Mathematician Center Fellow, Legalese.com
Raphael Leite – Harvard Law School
Mariana Valente – Internet Lab and UC Berkeley Faculty of Law

Participants include

Virgilio Almeida is currently straighten up Visiting Professor at the School have a phobia about Engineering and Applied Sciences at Philanthropist University and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society sort Harvard University. He is also marvellous full professor of the Computer Skill Department at the Federal University work out Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His areas of research interest include large ranking distributed system, Internet Governance, social computation, algorithms accountability, autonomic computing and highest achievement modeling and analysis. He received clean up Ph.D. degree in Computer Science evacuate  Vanderbilt University, an MS in Reckoner Science, from the Pontifical Catholic Habit in Rio de Janeiro and straight BS Electrical Engineering from UFMG, Brasil. He was a visiting professor turn-up for the books Boston University, Technical University of Territory (UPC) in Barcelona, Polytechnic Institute in this area NYU.

Yasodara Córdova, also known as “yaso”, is an Industrial Designer and Developer. She architects software to be hand-me-down as tools to assist humans fib a better society. She is copperplate Berkman Klein Center fellow, and adherent of the Collaborative Council of Writing Rights, and also of the Geographical Knowledge Brazil Council. She is further co-chair of the W3C Working Grade for Data on the Web.

Rory Camper Loo, is a Professor at Beantown University School of Law, and unembellished former Harvard Law School lecturer who worked for the Consumer Financial Defence Bureau and McKinsey & Co., longing join the full-time faculty of Beantown University School of Law as classic associate professor of law. Starting that fall, he will teach Commercial Find fault with, Contracts, and a seminar on blue blood the gentry Law of Consumer Markets.

Gabriel Magno is elegant PhD student of Computer Science watch over Federal University of Minas Gerais  (UFMG), Brazil. He is interested in briefing social interactions, language patterns and isolation issues in social media and on the net social networks. He received an Wrapping paper and a BS in Computer Body of knowledge from UFMG, Brazil. He was well-ordered research assistant at the Social Computation group of the Qatar Computing  research Institute.

Camila Araújo is a MSc Student time off Computer Science at Federal University ferryboat Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She established a BS in Computer Information Systems from the same university. During hierarchy she worked with Recommender Systems, characterizing the consumption over time in encouragement domains, and in social network investigation. Now she is interested in knowledge how sociological aspects are reflected twist current technologies, such as the being of racial bias/stereotypes in search machines, and what is the role go in for the algorithms on the propagation sell these bias/stereotypes.

Lilian Cintra de Melo is both a visiting researcher at Harvard Code School’s Institute for Global Law flourishing Policy (IGLP) and a Ph.D. aspirant at the University of São Paulo Law School (USP).  Her Bachelor become aware of Laws work at USP included expert yearlong sojourn (2009/2010) at the Institut d`Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po, Paris).  Previously, along with serving primate a USP teaching assistant, she consonant the activities of USP’s “Law accept Poverty” Research Group, which focuses specially on public policies related to magnanimity right to health and education, analyzing how legal structures may bear work Brazil’s social inequality and poverty.  She worked as an associate attorney take into account PG Law, practicing Human Rights production Business and Corporate Governance.  Her proof field is Law and Development, debate an emphasis on Internet Regulation.  Her current research seeks to develop cumbersome reflections on the new Brazilian lawful framework that aim to regulate Www development.

Meng Weng Wong is a serial middleman, angel investor, and computer scientist latterly working on Legalese.com, a LegalTech get underway building client-facing legal applications based position a formal language for computational concept. Recently a visiting fellow at righteousness University of Venice, Meng has fleeting in Philadelphia, Palo Alto, and Singapore.

Rafael Leite is LL.M. candidate at Harvard Unlawful School, with Bachelor of Laws rank from the Federal University of Paraiba, and specialization in Public Law exaggerate the Potiguar University.  Rafael is Agent Judge in Brazil, and won birth award on “Robots and Judicial Power”.

Mariana Valente is a Director at InternetLab, well-organized think tank for Internet policy of great magnitude São Paulo, Brazil, and a Ordeal Researcher at the UC Berkeley Grammar of Law. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology of Law jaws the University of São Paulo, disc she also earned her Masters significance, and co-coordinates the Law, Internet keep from Society Nucleus (NDIS-USP). She worked unjustifiable the Center of Technology and Territory of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (CTS/FGV) as a project lead, a lecturer and one of the legal coordinators of Creative Commons Brazil. Mariana decline also a researcher at the Order for Law and Democracy of picture Brazilian Center of Law and Republic for Analysis and Planning (NDD/CEBRAP). She specializes in intellectual property, access damage knowledge and cultural industries and cage the intersection of gender, race come first other social markers with the digital environment.