Resources

What is a platform, why are platforms important, and what is unique about online platforms?

• Tarleton Gillespie, Regulation of and by platforms (2017) 
• Orly Lobel, The Law of the Platform, Minnesota Law Review (2016)

Demystifying Algorithmic Processes

• Geiger, Bot-based collective blocklists in Twitter: The counterpublicmoderation of harassment in a networked public space  (2016)
• Cynthia Dwork and Deirdre Mulligan, It’s Not Privacy, and It’s Not Fair, Stanford Law Review (2013)

David E. Nelson Lecture

•  Federal Trade Commission, Big Data: A tool for inclusion or exclusion? (January 2016) https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/big-data-tool-inclusion-or-exclusion-understanding-issues/160106big-data-rpt.pdf
• Terrell McSweeny, “Why Regulate Online Platforms: Transparency, Fairness, Competition or Innovation?” (2015) https://www.ftc.gov/public-statements/2015/12/cra-conference-panel-why-regulate-online-platforms-transparency-fairness
• Terrell McSweeny, Keynote Remarks, ANA/BAA Marketing Law Conference (2016) https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements/996554/mcsweeny_-_keynote_remarks_at_ana-baa_marketing_law_conference_11-10-16.pdf

Consumer Protection

• Tom Brown, Lawrence D. Kaplan, Gerald Sachs & Kristin S. Teager, Online Lenders Beware—CashCall Decision another Example of True Lender Risks (September 29, 2016)
• Martin Kenney & John Zysman, The Rise of the Platform Economy, Issues in Science Technology (Spring 2016)
• Jane Winn, The Secession of the Successful: The Rise of Amazon as Private Global Consumer Protection Regulator, Arizona Law Review (2016)

Privacy

• Joel Reidenberg, NYC to Collect GPS Data on Car Service Passengers—Good Intentions Gone Awry or Something Else? (2017) 

Future of Work

• Veena Dubal, Wage Slave or Entrepreneur?: Contesting the Dualism of Legal Worker Identities, 105 Calif Law Rev. 65 (2017) http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4347&context=californialawreview

Free Expression and Terrorist Content

• Monika Bickert, Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests (2015)  https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/03/explaining-our-community-standards-and-approach-to-government-requests/
• Ines Von Behr, Anaïs Reding, Charlie Edwards, Luke Gribbon, Radicalisation in the digital era: The use of the internet in 15 cases of terrorism and extremism, RAND (2013)
• Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Todd Helmus, Madeline Magnuson, Zev Winkelman, Examining ISIS Support and Opposition Networks on Twitter, RAND (2016) http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1328.html
• Emma Llanso, Takedown Collaboration by Private Companies Creates Troubling Precedent, CDT (2016)
• Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Seamus Hughes, The Threat to the United States from the Islamic State’s Virtual Entrepreneurs, Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point (March 9, 2017)

Discrimination

• Aaron Belzer and Nancy Leong, The New Public Accommodations, 105 Georgetown Law Journal (2017), Forthcoming

Intellectual Property as a Control Mechanism

• Leah Chan Grinvald, Policing the Cease-and-Desist Letter, 49 University of San Francisco Law Review 409 (2015)
• Leanne Ta and Aaron Rubin, The Decline and Fall of the Section 230 Safe Harbor? Socially Aware (January/February 2017) https://media2.mofo.com/documents/170209-socially-aware.pdf
• Aaron Rubin and Kelsey Spector, Ninth Circuit Case Demonstrates that the Social Media Platform, Not the User, Is In Control by, Socially Aware (November 2016) https://media2.mofo.com/documents/161107-socially-aware.pdf
• Jennifer M. Urban, Joe Karaganis, & Brianna L. Schofield, Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice (Version 2: Updated March 2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2755628

David Kaye Keynote

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (May 2016)
  https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/095/12/PDF/G1609512.pdf

Discrimination

• Tamar Kricheli-Katz and Tali Regev, How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets, Science Advance (2016) http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1500599
• Eyal Benvenisti, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Tali Regev, “Big Corporations, Big Data, Big Responsibility,” BTLJ Blog (2017)

Conclusion

• Daphne Keller, The Right Tools: Europe’s Intermediary Liability Laws and the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2914684
• James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan, Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy, McKinsey (October 2016) http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/independent-work-choice-necessity-and-the-gig-economy
• Marshall Van Alstyne, Geoffrey Parker, and Sanjeet Paul Choudary, Pipelines, Platforms & The New Rules of Strategy, Harvard Business Review (2016) https://hbr.org/2016/04/pipelines-platforms-and-the-new-rules-of-strategy
• Seda Gürses and Joris van Hoboken, ‘Privacy After the Agile Turn’, in: Selinger et al (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, Forthcoming 2017. https://osf.io/ufdvb/