Innovation Policy Colloquium
Professors Michal Shur-Ofry and Katherine Strandburg
Spring 2026
Thursdays 4:45-6:45pm Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LW.10930
3 credits
The Colloquium on Innovation Policy focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity, invention, and new technology. This year, we will discuss the the implications of complexity for law and policy related to innovation, privacy and AI. Complexity science is a cutting-edge multi-disciplinary field that studies a wide variety of systems comprised of numerous interacting components. The human social network, the internet, social media applications, cities, biological systems and financial networks are all examples of complex systems. Complexity can lead to non-linear and surprising responses to policy initiatives, such as tipping points and feedback effects. Policymaking that is insensitive to these possibilities can go drastically awry.
Schedule of Presenters
Thursday, FEBRUARY 5
, Director, CCNR/The Lab: The Center for Complex Network Research
Thursday, FEBRUARY 12
, Vice Dean of Faculty & Intellectual Life; Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA School of Law
, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Thursday, FEBRUARY 19
, Associate Dean of Graduate and International Law; Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
Wednesday,FEBRUARY 25 (2:35-4:35pm Furman Hall Room 326)
, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School
Thursday, MARCH 5
, Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
Thursday, MARCH 12
, Adjunct Professor of Law, ÈâÂþÎÝ School of Law Spring 2026; Associate Professor, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Questions about the Colloquium should be addressed to Nicole Arzt. For those interested in attending any of the talks without an ÈâÂþÎÝ ID need to RSVP to Nicole Arzt.