פרופ’ טל ז’רסקי

Articles​

• Big Mistake(s). Florida Law Review (forthcoming, 2025) (with Samuel Becher).
• Fair Enough AI, Yale Journal of Law and Technology (forthcoming, 2025) (with Jane Bambauer).
• When Software Meets the Road: Responsibility for Defective Smart Cars in the MVP Era, 57 Georgia Law Review, 1713- 1768 (2023). (with Sharon Cop)
• What is the Juxtaposition between the Silicon Valley and Mt. Sinai? Covenantal Principles and the Conceptualization of Platform-User Relation, 37(3) Journal of Law and Religion, 446 (2022) ) (with Nadav Berman).
• When a Small Change Makes a Big Difference: Algorithmic Fairness Among Similar Individuals, 55 UC Davis L. Rev., 2337 (2022) (with Jane Bambauer and Jonathan Mayer).
• Serious Notice: A Celebration, Discussion, and Recognition of Joel Reidenberg’s Work on Privacy Notices and Disclosures, 90)4) Fordham L. Rev. 1457-1487 (2022).
• Cybersecurity Spillovers, Brigham Young University Law Review, 47(3) BYU L. Rev. 929-999 (2022).
• Tragic Allocation Challenges in the COVID-19 Era, ,Florida State University Law Review, 49(4) Florida State Law Review, 945-994 (2022).
• Optimizing Breach Notification, 2021(3) Illinois L. Rev. 803-864 (2021).
• Privacy and Manipulation in the Digital Age, 20(1) Theoretical Inquiries in Law 157-189 (2019).
• Minding the Gap 51 Connecticut Law Review, 69-116 (2019) (with (Shmuel Becher)
• The Algorithm Game 94(1) Notre Dame Law Review 1-48 (2018) (with Jane Bambauer)
• An Analytic Challenge: Discrimination Theory in the Age of Predictive Analytics, 14(1) I/S:A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Age, 11-36 (2018)
• Cybersecurity for Infrastructure: A Critical Analysis, 44 Florida State Law Review, 515-578 (2017) (with Eldar Haber)
• Incompatible: The GDPR in the Age of Big Data, 47(4) Seton Hall Law Review, 995-1020 (2017).
• Protecting Israel’s Critical Infrastructure in the Cyber Realm, 18(1) Mishpat Umimshal, 99-156 (Hebrew) (2017) (With Eldar Haber)
• The Trouble with Algorithmic Decisions: An Analytic Road Map to Examine Efficiency and Fairness in Automated and Opaque Decision Making, 4(1) Science, Technology & Human Values 118.
• Who Should be Liable for Online Anonymous Defamation, 82 University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 162 (2015) (With Ronen Perry).
• Taking Turns, 43(1) Florida State Law Review, 187-239 (2015) (with Ronen Perry).
• Online Consumer Contracts: No One Reads, But Does Anyone Care?, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies ( 2015) (With Shmuel Becher).
• The Privacy – Innovation Conundrum, 19(2) Lewis & Clark Law Review 115 (2015) .
• Social Justice, Social Norms and the Governance of Social Media, 35(1) Pace Law Review 138 (2015).
• Understanding Discrimination in the Scored Society, 89 Wash. L. Rev. 1375 (2015).
• May the Odds Be Forever in Your Favor: Lotteries in Law, 66 Ala. L. Rev. 1035 (2015) (With Ronen Perry).
• Seduction by Disclosure, 9 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 72(2014) (With Shmuel Becher).
• Liability for Online Anonymous Speech: Comparative and Economic Analyses, 5 (2) Journal of European Tort Law, 205 (2014) (With Ronen Perry).
• Queues in Law, 99 Iowa L. Rev. 1595 (2014) (With Ronen Perry).
• Internet Intermediary Liability: A Social Network Perspective, 43(2) Hebrew University Law Review 631 (Hebrew) (2013) (with Michal Lavi).
• Transparent Predictions, 2013(4) U. Ill. L. Rev. 1503 (2013).
• Regulating Electronic Identity Intermediaries: The “Soft eID” Conundrum”, 74(6) Ohio St. L.J. 1335 (2013) (With Norberto Andrade).
• Mining the Networked Self, 6(1) Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 120 (2012).
• Automated Prediction: Perception, Law and Policy, 15(9) Communication of the ACM 33 (2012).
• Governmental Data Mining and its Alternatives, 116(2) Penn. St. L. Rev. 285 (2012).
• Open Doors, Trap Doors and the Law, 74(2) Law & Contemporary Problems 63 (2011) (With Shmuel Becher).
• Transparency in Content Filtering: A Plan of Attack, 2 Hebrew University Law Journal on Legislation 133 (Hebrew) (2010).
• Revisiting the Right to Rescind Consumer Transactions, 32(1) Tel Aviv Law Review 127 (Hebrew) (2010) (with Shmuel Becher).
• Reconfiguring E-Contract Policy: Market Optimization, Consumer Protection, and the Promotion of Trust in E-Commerce Transactions , 25(2) Bar Ilan Law Review (Hebrew) (2009) (with Shmuel Becher).
• E-Contract Doctrine 2.0: Standard Form Contracting in the Age of Online User Participation , 14(2) Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 303 (2008) (With Shmuel Becher).
• Law and Online Social Networks: Mapping the Challenges and Promises of User-Generated Information Flows, 18(3) Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 741 (2008).
• Assessing Alternative Models Compensating for Content Consumption, 84 Denv. U. L. Rev. 645 (2007).
• Copyright in the Digital Age – Promising Models and Keeping the Promise (reviewing Fisher, Promises to Keep), 2 Haifa Law Review 711 (Hebrew) (2006).
• Information Privacy in Virtual Worlds – Identifying Unique Concerns, 49 N.Y.L Sch. L. Rev. 231 (2004-2005).
• Desperately Seeking Solutions: Using Implementation-Based Solutions for the Troubles of Information Privacy in the Age of Data Mining and the Internet Society, 56(1) Me. L. Rev. 13 (2004).
• Thinking Outside the Box: Considering Transparency, Anonymity and Pseudonymity as Overall Solutions to the Troubles of Information Privacy, 58(4) U. Miami L. Rev. 1301 (2004).
• Mine Your Own Business! Making the Case for the Implications of the Data Mining of Personal Information in the Forum of Public Opinion, 5 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2002-2003).
• Cookie Viewers and the Undermining of Data-Mining: A Critical Review of the DoubleClick Settlement, 2002 Stanford Technology Law Review P1 (2002).

Books

• Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society: Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases, (Bart Custers, Toon Calders, Bart Schermer & Tal Zarsky eds., Springer 2012).

• Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment (Jack M. Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman, & Tal Zarsky eds., N.Y.U. Press 2007).

Book Chapters

• Correlation vs. Causation in Health-Related Big Data Analysis: The Role of Reason and Regulation, in Glenn Cohen, et. al., Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics, 42-55(Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• The Data Mining Balancing Act, in European Data Protection: in Good Health? (Serge Gutwirth, et al. eds., Springer 2012).
• The Way Forward, in Tal Zarsky, et al., Data Mining without Discrimination (Springer, 2012) (With Bart Custers, Toon Calders, Bart Schermer).
• Transparency in Data Mining: From Theory to Practice, in Tal Zarsky, et al., Data Mining without Discrimination (Springer, 2012).
• Data Mining as Search: Theoretical Insights and Policy Responses, inTal Zarsky, et al., Data Mining without Discrimination (Springer, 2012).
• Data Mining as Search: Theoretical Insights and Policy Responses, inTal Zarsky, et al., Data Mining without Discrimination (Springer, 2012).
• Responding to the Inevitable Outcomes of Profiling – Recent Lessons from the Consumer Financial Markets, and Beyond in Data Protection in a Profiled Worlds, Data Protection in a Profiled World (Serge Gutwirth, Yves Poullet and Paul De Hert, eds., Springer, 2010).
• Privacy and Data Collection in Virtual Worlds, in State of Play (Jack M. Balkin and Beth S. Noveck eds., NYU Press 2005).
• Online Privacy, Tailoring and Persuasion, in Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age (Katherine J. Strandburg and Daniela Stan Raicu, eds., Kluwer Publishing 2005).

Other

• Jeffrey Kahn, and Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies, Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response: Ethics and Governance Guidance, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) (project member).
• The Cute Contracts Conundrum. JOTWELL (2020)
• Editors’ Note, 14 HAIFA LAW REVIEW, (2019) (with Ronen Perry) (Hebrew)
• Data Breach Harms – Brining in the Courts, or Leaving them Out?, JOTWELL (2019).
• Governing The New Governors and their Speech, JOTWELL (2018).
• Podcast Interview: Episode #1 – Tal Zarsky on the Ethics of Big Data and Predictive Analytics (Algocracy and Transhumanism Project, 21.04.2016)
• Automation, Correlation and Causation: Launching a Policy Discussion, The LSE Media Policy Project Blog (2016).
• Automatic, for the People?, JOTWELL (2016).
• Trial by Machine, JOTWELL (2016).
• Podcast Interview: Episode #1 – Tal Zarsky on the Ethics of Big Data and Predictive Analytics (Algocracy and Transhumanism Project, 2016).
• Editors’ Note, Haifa Law Review, Vol. 8.(2015)
• The Practice and Theory of Secure Data Releases, JOTWELL (2015).
• Digital Behavioral Advertising – Why Worry? JOTWELL (2014).
• Mapping the Frontiers of Governance in Social Media, Conference Paper. Berlin (2011) (with Wolfgang Schulz, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Niva Elkin-Koren, and Gustavo S. Mesch).