Monday, December 11, 2017
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) of Jerusalem
Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus,Feldman Building, Room 130
Yuval Shany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law
Amit Ashkenazi, Legal Advisor, National Cyber Directorate
9:00-10:30 Keynote: Michael N. Schmitt, Exeter Law School
Grey areas in the law of cyberspace
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Web Access as a Human Right
Moderator: Tehilla Shwartz-Altshuler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Antal Berkes, University of Manchester, School of Law
The Territorial State’s Responsibility for the “Information Blockade” in
Areas out of its Effective Control – Restoring “Internet Sovereignty”?
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Blocking of Cyber-Enabled Communications by States: Ramifications
for the Right to Freedom of Communication
Ryan Shandler, University of Haifa
Internet Access as an Auxiliary Human Right
12:15-13:15 Lunch talk
Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
13:15-14:45 Keynote: Chinmayi Arun, National Law University Delhi
Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Speech: Setting Standards for the New World
14:45-16:15 Active Cyber-Defense and Predictive Policing
Moderator: Tamar Berenblum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arturo Carrillo, George Washington University Law School
Cybersecurity and Interpersonal Cyber-Violence (ICV)
Shavana Musa, The University of Manchester, UK
The State, Active Defence and Human Rights
Simon Perry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reducing false-identifications and failure to identify of radicals
on new social media: A comparative analysis of violent and
non-violent radicals and human rights implications
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Non-State Actors and Freedom of Expression
Moderator: Barak Medina, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oleg Soldatov, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
“Bloggers Law” and Online Freedom of Expression in Russia
Themis Tzimas, University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki, Greece
An e- right to whistleblowing or hacking? State- sovereignty and
political rights in the age of the cyber-space
Tomer Shadmy, Tel Aviv University
Human Rights by design: Do internet Giants Lock-in our Legal Imaginary
Urbano Reviglio, University of Bologna
“Serendipity by Design”: Value Sensitive Design (VSD) Approach
18:00-19:30 The State in an Era of Weaponized Information
Moderator: Noam Lubell, University of Essex
Ido Kilovaty, Yale Law School
Doxfare – Politically Motivated Leaks and the Future of The Norm
on Non-Intervention and the Right to Self-Determination
Ido Rosenzweig and Amnon Reichman, University of Haifa
State Operated Hackings: Human Rights in the Cyber Era
19:30 Reception & Dinner
9:15-10:30 Privacy in the Age of Dataveillance
Moderator: Tal Zarsky, University of Haifa
Prof. Tal Zarsky is the Vice Dean of the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Law. His research focuses on Information Privacy, Cyber-Security, Internet Policy, Social Networks, Telecommunications Law, Online Commerce, Reputation and Trust. He published numerous articles and book chapters in the U.S., Europe and Israel. His work is often cited in a variety of contexts related to law in the digital age.
Among others, he participated in the Data Mining without Discrimination project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as well as other national and international research projects. He has advised various Israeli regulators, legislators and commercial entities on related matters. He severed on a variety of advisory boards and is a frequent evaluator of articles and research grants for various international foundations.
Prof. Zarsky was a Fellow at the Information Society Project, at Yale Law School and a Global Hauser Fellow, at NYU Law School. He completed his doctorate dissertation, which focused on Data Mining in the Internet Society, at Columbia University School of Law. He earned a joint B.A. degree (law and psychology) at the Hebrew University with high honors and his master degree (in law) from Columbia University.
● Yuval Goldfus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Privacy and the Defense of the Self
● David Gray, University of Maryland School of Law
Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Surveillance: Collective Rights and Collective Remedies
David Gray teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international criminal law, and jurisprudence at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. He was voted “Professor of the Year” in 2012. His scholarly interests focus on criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional theory, and transitional justice. He is the author of The Fourth Amendment in the Age of Surveillance (Cambridge University Press, 2017), co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-author of Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year Curriculum (West, 2016). He has published dozens of articles and book chapters in leading journals and collections. Consistent with the Law School’s mission as a public educational institution, Professor Gray frequently provides expert commentary for local and national media outlets. Prior to joining the School of Law Faculty, Professor Gray practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law, and served as a clerk in the chambers of The Honorable Chester J. Straub, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and The Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Gray is admitted to the Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia bars.
● Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
Dr. Greenstadt’s research centers on the privacy and security properties of multi-agent systems and the economics of electronic privacy and information security. Her lab—the Privacy, Security, and Automation Laboratory (PSAL)—focuses on designing more trustworthy intelligent systems that act autonomously and with integrity, so that they can be trusted with important data and decisions. The lab takes a highly interdisciplinary approach to this research, incorporating ideas from artificial intelligence, psychology, economics, data privacy, and system security. However, a common thread of this work has been studying information flow, trustworthiness, and control. Recently, much of PSAL’s work has focused on using machine learning to better understand textual communication.
● Mickey Zar, Tel Aviv University
The Technological Drama Within the Information Sphere: Privacy versus Surveillance
Mickey is a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her current research, ‘Resisting Surveillance’, is written under the supervision of Prof. Michael Birnhack, and is focused on digital activism, mainly non-institutional forms of resistance to surveillance.
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Corporate Accountability for Protecting Human Rights in Cyberspace
Moderator: Orly Friedman Marton, Microsoft Israel
Since 2007, Orly serves as the Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Israel, where she is also part of the leadership team. In her role, Orly is responsible for managing all legal as well as regulatory, compliance and public policy aspects. In addition, she leads the company’s corporate responsibility program, built on national level tri-sector partnerships, focusing on Coding, Computer Science and next generation skills, Employment, Internet Safety, NGO capacity and more. Prior to joining Microsoft, Orly worked as a lawyer in private law firms and before that as a research assistant in law. Orly applies her knowledge and expertise to her local community where she participates as a member in two national committees, a board member of an NGO and a mentor in a mentoring in the community program. Orly holds a Master of Laws (LLM) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees, both from Tel-Aviv University and She is a graduate of MAOZ Leadership program including Harvard Business School MAOZ fellowship program.
● Jon M. Garon, NSU Shepard Broad College of Law
A Transnational Business Model to Improve Human Rights, Speech, and Security on the Internet
Jon M. Garon is dean of Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. Garon serves as chief academic officer for the law school, providing strategic leadership on programming, curriculum, enrollment management, marketing, and finance. He is a nationally recognized authority on technology law and intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment and information privacy. A Minnesota native, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and his juris doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1988.
Prior to joining Nova Southeastern University in 2014, Garon was the inaugural director of the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law + Informatics Institute from 2011-2014. Garon served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was professor of law from 2003 to 2011, dean of the Law School from 2003 to 2008 and Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Management from 2005 to 2006. Before Hamline, Garon taught Entertainment Law and Copyright at Franklin Pierce College of Law in Concord, New Hampshire and Western State University College of Law in Orange County, California.
Among his numerous accomplishments, Garon has held key leadership positions as past chair of both the American Bar Association’s Law School Administration Committee and the Association of American Law Schools Section on Part-Time Legal Education. His teaching and scholarship often focus on business innovation and structural change to media, education and content-based industries. He is the author of four books and numerous book chapters and articles, including Pop Culture Business Handbook for Cons and Festivals (Manegiere Publications 2017); The Independent Filmmaker’s Law & Business Guide to Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (A Cappella Books, 2d Ed. 2009); Own It – The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business Through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance (Carolina Academic Press 2007); and Entertainment Law & Practice (2d Ed. 2014 Carolina Academic Press).
● Onyeka K. Osuji, Essex University
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Challenge of Relational and Solidarity Signals in Cybersecurity Enforcement
Dr Onyeka Osuji (PhD, BCL, LLB, BL, FHEA) is a Reader in Law at the University of Essex School of Law, UK. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law, Law School, University of Exeter, UK. He obtained his PhD (Law) from the University of Manchester, BCL (Law) from the University of Oxford and LLB (Law) from the University of Nigeria. Dr Osuji’s research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, consumer protection, globalization and regulation. Some of his current research projects include regulating corporate social responsibility in emerging and developing markets, technological licensing framework for 3D printed content with a particular focus on China, and legal framework for non-financial reporting in a globalized context. Dr Osuji is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK. He is qualified as a barrister and solicitor of Nigeria and a (non-practising) solicitor of England and Wales. He has been in legal practice and has advised individuals, corporations and national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
● Michal Gal, University of Haifa
Algorithmic Challenges to Autonomous Choice
Michal Gal (LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D.) is Professor and Director of the Forum on Law and Markets at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel. She was a Visiting Professor at NYU, Columbia, Georgetown, Melbourne and Lisbon. Prof. Gal is the author of several books, including Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003). She also published scholarly articles on competition law issues and has won prizes for her research and for her teaching. Inter alia, she was chosen as one of the ten most promising young legal scholars in Israel (Globes, 2007) and as one of the leading women in competition law around the world (Global Competition Review). Her paper, “Merger Policy for Small and Micro Economies”, won the Antitrust Writings Award for best paper on merger policy in 2013, and her paper on “Access to Big Data” (with Daniel Rubinfeld) won the award for best paper on unilateral conduct (2016).
Prof. Gal is the President of the International Academic Society for Competition Law Scholars (ASCOLA). She served as a consultant to several international organizations (including OECD, UNCTAD) on issues of competition law and was a non-governmental advisor of the International Competition Network (ICN). She also advised several small economies and regiional organizations on the framing of their competition laws. She is a board member of several international antitrust organizations, including the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), The Antitrust Consumer Institute, the Asian Competition Law and Economics Center (ACLEC). She clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court, and her work is often cited in the decisions of the Court on competition matters.
●Noa Mor, University of Haifa
Social Network Sites, Human Rights, and Public Law
Noa Mor is a PhD in Law Candidate at the University of Haifa, conducting her research under the supervision of Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren. She is also a research fellow at the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP). Her main research interests concern the legal and social challenges emerging with regard to social network sites. In particular, she explores the public attributes of these platforms and their various implications. Noa holds an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an LLM from the University of Haifa, where she majored in Law and Technology. She previously served as a research fellow at the Haifa Center for Law and Technology (HCLT).
12:15-13:15 Keynote: Prof. Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
The Future of Violence
Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in public international law, international negotiations, the law of armed conflict, and counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and a member of the Executive Board of the Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2005, she served for seven years as a Senior Legal Advisor in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps in the Israel Defense Forces, and for another year as a Strategy Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. She is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University and of Harvard Law School. She is the author of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries (2007); Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists (2010) (co-authored with Philip Heymann and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize); and The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones – Confronting a New Age of Threat (2015) (co-authored with Benjamin Wittes and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize).
She is currently working on a book manuscript on “The Fog of Victory” as a Carnegie Fellow.
Commentator: Itamar Mann-Kanowitz, University of Haifa
Itamar Mann’s interests lie in the areas of international law, political theory, and transnational legal history. Alongside an introduction to public international law, he teaches courses in the areas of refugee and migration law, law and terrorism, and environmental law. He also co-convenes of a legal clinic focused on marine environment and resources. In recent years, the main part of his research focused on legal, political, and ethical questions generated by the mass movement of refugees and migrants. His book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press. He has also published in the areas of national security law and international criminal law, and has occasionally commented on professional blogs such as EJIL:Talk! and Just Security, and public news sources such as Haaretz and AlJazeera. He serves as a legal adviser to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), and has provided consultation to several other human rights organizations both in Israel and abroad. Before coming to Haifa, Mann was the national security law fellow at Georgetown Law Center, and Yale Law School’s Bernstein Fellow. He holds J.S.D. and L.L.M. degrees from Yale Law School, as well as an L.L.B. from Tel Aviv University, where he was a student in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students.
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Big Data & Human Rights
Moderator: Tammy Harel Ben Shahar, University of Haifa
Dr. Tammy Harel Ben Shahar is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, and the Academic Director of the Clinics for Law and Social Change. Dr. Harel Ben Shahar completed her LLD at the Hebrew University Law Faculty. Her dissertation on Equality in Education and the Privatization of Education won the Bronfman prize for outstanding dissertation in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. After completing her doctoral studies, Harel Ben Shahar spent two years as a post-doctoral scholar at Columbia University and at the Tikvah Center in the NYU Law school as a Fulbright fellow. Her scholarship engages issues in the intersection between Law and Philosophy, and focuses especially on Education Law and Philosophy, Distributive Justice, Human Rights, and Political Philosophy.
● Michal Saliternik, Tel Aviv University
Big Data and the Right to Have Rights
Dr. Michal Saliternik is Assistant Professor at the Netanya Academic College School of Law, specializing in international and public law, conflict resolution, and law and political theory. She earned her LL.B. and Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University and has been a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University.
Her articles were published in various journals, including the European Journal of International Law, The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Hastings Law Journal.
● Doaa Abu Elyounes, Harvard Law School
Bail or Jail? Judicial versus Algorithmic Decision Making in the Pretrial System
Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
She researches the effect of artificial intelligence algorithms on the criminal justice system and the legal framework that is suitable to govern the new space.
Doaa completed her LL.M at Harvard Law School as well as LL.B and LL.M in Law and Technology in the University of Haifa, Israel.
After law school, Doaa worked at the Supreme Court of Israel as a law clerk and at the Israeli Ministry of Justice as an advisor to the Director General of the Ministry.
● Yoni Har Carmel, University of Haifa
Reshaping Ability Grouping through Big Data
Yoni Har Carmel is a PhD student at the Haifa Center for Law and Technology, writing his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren (Haifa Faculty of Law) and Prof.
Michal Yerushalmy (the Institute of Research and Development of Alternatives in Education). Har Carmel investigates the interactions between law, education and technology in the digital age from legal and pedagogical perspectives.
In addition to practicing and studying law, Har Carmel is a former high school teacher in the “Teach for Israel” program, the aim of which is to overcome system-based inequality in education.
15:45-16: 00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:30 Encryption, Anonymization and Human Rights
Keynote: Roger Dingledine, TOR Project
Roger Dingledine is President and co-founder of The Tor Project, a non-profit that writes software to keep people around the world safe on the Internet. Wearing one hat, he works with activists on many continents to help them understand and protect against the threats they face. Wearing another hat, he is a leading researcher in anonymous communications, coordinating and mentoring academic researchers working on Tor-related topics, and helping to organize the yearly international Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). Among his achievements, Roger was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of its top 35 innovators under 35, he co-authored the Tor design paper that won the Usenix Security “Test of Time” award, and he has been recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its top 100 global thinkers.
Moderator: Eldar Haber, University of Haifa
Dr. Eldar Haber is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Faculty of Law, Haifa University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society. His main research interests consist of various facets of law and technology including cyber law, intellectual property law (focusing mainly on copyright), privacy, civil rights and liberties, and criminal law. His works were published in various flagship law reviews worldwide, including top-specialized law and technology journals of U.S. universities such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Over the years, he has won several academic awards such as the IAPP best privacy paper award in Europe (2017). His works are frequently presented in various workshops and conferences around the globe, and were cited in academic papers, governmental reports, the media, and U.S. Federal courts.
Commentators:
Orr Dunkelmann, University of Haifa
Orr Dunkelman is an associate professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Haifa. His research focuses on cryptanalysis, cryptography, security, and privacy, especially in the context of biometric data. Orr’s work in symmetric-key cryptanalysis includes analyzing many ciphers and the introduction of several new cryptanalytic techniques. Orr has worked on many of the most widely deployed ciphers such as the AES, KASUMI (used in 3G mobile networks), A5/1 (used in GSM networks), and IDEA. He has published over 80 publications in international venues, including the best paper awards from FSE 2012 and CRYTPO 2012. He has also served on more than 80 program committees, five times as a program chair, is the general chair of EUROCRYPT 2018, and has served on several boards and steering committees (e.g., the IACR board).
Orr has obtained his Ph.D. in computer science in 2006 from the Technion and a B.A. in computer science in 2000 from the Technion.
Niva Elkin-Koren is the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT) and a co-director of the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP) at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. She is the former dean of the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of knowledge. She has written and spoken extensively about digital governance, legal oversight of algorithmic decision-making, liability of online intermediaries, the privatization of information policy, private ordering, the economic analysis of intellectual property, and legal strategies for enhancing the public domain.
She is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council, of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and an Advisory Board Member in the Information Program of the Open Society Foundation. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Copyright Society (since 2009) the Journal of Information Policy (since 2010) and the Internet Policy Review (since 2016). Prof. Elkin-Koren received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995.
https://law.haifa.ac.il/index.php/he/elkiniva
18:30 Reception & Dinner
**Selected papers will be offered publication in a symposium issue of the Israel Law Review.
