Between Truth and Power: Featuring Julie Cohen
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 2019-12-13

Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, the U.S. legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes. In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it too is transforming in fundamental ways. For more information about this event, visit https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/between-truth-and-power-legal-constructions-informational-capitalism.