Governing Data

Data privacy laws will never work without effective corporate data governance. Governing Data will bring top law and computer science scholars together to discuss the theory and practice of good corporate data governance, including design, verification, and enforcement. The symposium is a collaboration between UIowa's Innovation, Business, and Law Center and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. #GoverningData

March 28 & 29, 2025
Yale Law School
Live Stream at University of Iowa College of Law

(In-person or virtual attendance available)

Symposium Schedule

Keynote Speakers

Kristin Johnson (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Elaine Sedenberg (Meta)
Jennifer Urban (California Privacy Protection Agency)

Moderators

Rebecca E. Wexler (University of California, Berkeley)
Matthew Wansley (Cardozo School of Law)

Joe Calandrino
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)

Symposiasts

Alessandro Aquisti (Carnegie Mellon University), with Pegah Moradi (Cornell University), and Cristobal Cheyre (Cornell University)
- "Are There Economic Grounds for Regulating Behavioral Ads"
Julie Cohen (Georgetown University)
- "Public Utility for What? Governing AI Datastructures"
Mihailis Diamantis (University of Iowa), with Rishab Nithyanand, (University of Iowa) and Chen Sun (University of Iowa)
- "Information About Data: Ensuring Corporations Are Aware of Their Own Data Practices"
Diane Lourdes Dick (University of Iowa), with Joseph Yockey (University of Iowa)
- "Governing Toxic Data"
Serge Egelman (University of California, Berkeley), with Joel Reardon (University of Calgary), and Ken Bamberger (University of California, Berkeley)
- "Anonymity, Consent, and Other Noble Lies: An Empirical Study of the Data Economy"
Abigail Jacobs (University of Michigan), with Amina Abdu (University of Michigan)
- "AI Evaluations and the Standards Metaphor"
Zhaoyi Li (Albany Law School)
- "Digital Service Tax in the Data-Driven Era"
Athina Markopoulou (University of California, Irvine), with Zubair Shafiq (University of California, Davis), Woodrow Hartzog (Boston University), and Olivia Figueira (University of California, Irvine)
- "The Hypocricies of Data Governance"
Peter Ormerod (Northern Illinois University)
- "Disciplining Mechanis)ms"
Neil Richards (Washington University), with Woodrow Hartzog (Boston University), and Ryan Durrie (Washington University)
- "The Corporate Law Duty of Data Loyalty"
Yan Shvartzshnaider (York University), with Noah Apthorpe (Colgate University), Brett Frischmann (Villanova University)
- "Online Age Gating: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation"
Ari Ezra Waldman (University of California, Irvine)
- "The Physicist and the Shepherd"

Symposium Organizers

Mihailis Diamantis (University of Iowa, Law)
Rishab Nithyanand (University of Iowa, Computer Science)

The Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center