Open Law Lab
One case — Muslim Community Ass’n of Ann Arbor v. Ashcroft — brought this issue to US federal courts in 2003. Muslim and Arab organizations in Michigan sued…
Sri Lankan tech researcher & TED fellow Sanjana Hattotuwa has laid out some of the basic capabilities that mobile phones in the field can be used in dispute…
A paper on “An Asian Perspective on Online Mediation” puts forward an agenda for making all the advances made in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) transition to mobile devices. …
A major problem in governance is the spread of misinformation and rumors. Sometimes these result from concerted campaigns by political actors, to manipulate politicians with rumors meant to…
The Internet Bar Organization has fielded a proposed design, the Internet Silk Road Initiative, that would use online and mobile tech to provide access to justice & dispute…
http://popplet.com/app/#/535625 This is my law/design class’ brainstorm on problems refugees & the UNHCR face in communication. There are many challenges, especially in opening more reliable, trustworthy, & resonant…
Some observations on refugee redesign, with problems and insights about how tech and design could help their communication.
I am trying to compile some best practices of dispute resolution mechanisms inside refugee communities. I’ve found some good leads, including this write-up of design interventions in a…
Frank Smyth at the Committee to Protect Journalists writes about a chat tool, Cryptocat, developed with cryptography protections to give Ease of Use & Strong Protections to those…
One possible redesign of refugee camps from Odin Wright, built around the concept of ancient fortresses. The main motivation is protection from outside incursion, not necessarily welfare of…
Another talking head, this time on politicians vs. engineers, re: control of the Internet, drawn at Stanford Law School.
In July 2007, researcher Dawinder S. Sidhu commissioned the University of Oklahoma’s Public Opinion Learning Laboratory (UOPOLL) to conduct a survey that investigated “if and to what extent…
In response to the NYPD’s massive surveillance campaign against Muslims on the East Coast, a wonderful Tumblr with people voluntarily mapping & surveilling themselves. A project from CUNY’s…
an excerpt from an article by Jacqueline Novogratz, on the Huffington Post, highlighting some good redesign elements at a Pakistani refugee camp: We drive north along the old…
I just made a second law school quiz app — this time on the specific topic of Civil Procedure. It’s Law School Dojo: Civ Pro, now out on…
I have recently begun to play around with coding apps, and for my first real venture, I decided to code up a quiz app with all the things…
This answer is never going to be totally clearcut (hello, Law!), but there is one important test you have to pass, in order to sue the government for…
Turkey – Google Soap Opera: Taxes + Freedom of Expression When the strained relationship between Google + the Turkish government has been discussed in the Western press, most…
Chilling effects of government surveillance on individuals In the wake of reports of NYPD surveillance of Muslim communities along the East Coast, Frank Askin in New Jersey asks…
I am reading “In the Plex”, the book on Google’s development + special brand of ideological Kool-aid, by Steven Levy. An interviewee pointed out that we the citizenry…
Nerd Diplomacy: Google’s Foreign Policy In early 2010, when Google had decided to pull out of the China market, there was a brief window of discourse in which…
AP’s Probe Into NYPD Intelligence Operations This is the collection of all the Associated Press’ stories about NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims all along the Eastern Seaboard. They find…
Halfway through this lecture from an entrepreneur + a lawyer from Wilson Sonsini, there is a very helpful walkthrough of term sheets + how to negotiate with venture…
Thinking about starting a company? Think about the legal + market issues, here is a a great resource site from Steve Blank at Stanford, providing a step-by-step…
Entrepreneurs need to know how to negotiate with venture capitalists, as they get their rounds of funding. Here is a Term Sheet Battle, sponsored by a law firm…
I am fumbling around, trying to figure out the Internet in Turkey. It has quite the reputation, having blocked YouTube on-and-off for several years, along with WordPress, Blogger,…
An article from Ben Paynter at Good Magazine about Gary Well’s work in the Austin Police Department to use a computer program to improve crime witnesses’ identification of…
There is a team putting together a new platform in which people who work on human trafficking can link up, join forces, and share resources. Interested? Go look…
There are a host of apps (some free, some paid) for studying law. Most are oriented towards preparing for law bar exams, but they can be useful more…
A 2 page comic on Drones + Privacy.
Apps to Stop Human Trafficking — from NetHope & USAID challenge last summer (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Sarkissian Mason, a digital innovation agency, worked with the non-profit Pathways to Housing, to make a Virtual Homeless interactive experience for people walking down the street in New…
Chicago-Kent Law School, out of its Center for Access to Justice & Technology, has started publishing A2J — Access to Justice apps. A2J Author is a platform that…
SlaveFree is an app that lets you scan any product in a store, to see if slave labor likely was used in its production. Slavery Footprint is an…
Out of USC, a September 2011 report “Human Trafficking Online” by Mark Latonero on the role of online social networks in human trafficking. It shows the darker side of…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication is convening actors who are working to use technology to address human trafficking. Some of the projects: From the Center on Communication…
The New York State Bar Association has released a mobile app for lawyers, judges, and other legal practitioners — for quicker advice on whether their action is ‘Ethical…
Ethan Zuckerman writes that one way to better protect human rights’ activists content online is by making sure their content is on the same platform/site as the Cute…
