Selected Published Articles (organized by topic)

Anti-discrimination Law Theory

• Markets, Rights, and Discrimination by Customers, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 346 (2017) (ssrn) (invited response to Katharine Bartlett & Mitu Gulati, Discrimination by Customers, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 223 (2016))

First Amendment Theory & Technology 

• Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy (originally, contribution to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University’s Emerging Threats series (here and on ssrn)) (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2020) (David Pozen ed.)
• Search Engines, Free Speech Coverage, and the Limits of Analogical Reasoning in Fʀᴇᴇ Sᴘᴇᴇᴄʜ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟ Aɢᴇ (Susan J. Brison & Kath Gelber, eds.) in Free Speech in the Digital Age (OUP 2019) (co-authored with Robert Simpson) (ssrn)

Works in Progress

• The Autonomy Defense of Private Discrimination (ssrn)
  • Highly Recommended by Larry Solum on his Legal Theory Blog (here)
• Hermeneutic Injustice and White Ignorance: A Puzzle

Some Upcoming Presentations, Talks, etc.

• Symposium on Discrimination and Subordination, University of Toronto (Fall 2019)

Conference Presentations, Invited Talks, Invited Participant, etc.

Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy

• UC Berkeley Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory (Fall 2018) (here)

The Autonomy Defense of Private Discrimination,

• Symposium on Discrimination and Subordination, University of Toronto (Fall 2019)
• The Private Law Junior Scholars Conference (Summer 2019)
• NYU Philosophy, Washington Square Circle (April 2019)
• Socio Legal Studies Association conference (Spring 2019) (invited)
• SWIP-Analytic, New York Society for Women in Philosophy, New York City (invited Spring 2017)
• Emerging Voices in Workplace Law. Employment Discrimination and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program at 2017 AALS, San Francisco (invited)
• Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, University of Chicago Law School (Oct. 2016)
• Analytical Feminism: Past, Present, & Future. University of Massachusetts Lowell (Sept. 2016)
• MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory. Manchester, UK (Sept. 2016)

Broadly on Search Engines and Free Speech Coverage

• Forum Discussion Leader, Presidents’ Forum on Online Platform Liability for New York Intellectual Property Law Association (December 2019)
• Drexel Law Review’s First Amendment Symposium, Not Your Father’s First Amendment (Fall 2019) (invited)
• Socio Legal Studies Association conference (Spring 2019) (invited)
• Princeton (Guest lecturer in Susan Brison’s Law & Philosophy Course on First Amendment) (Fall 2018)
• Yale Law School Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference (May 2016).

Philosophy of Education 

• Graduate Student Mentor/Instructor – Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Undergraduate Summer School in Philosophy of Education (September 2019) (invited)

Epistemology 

• “Hermeneutic Injustice and White Ignorance: A Puzzle” – Applied Epistemology Research Retreat and Workshop, Prindle Institute for Ethics (Summer 2018)

Aesthetics 

• Invited Workshop Participant – Aesthetics Reborn (Summer 2018) (NYU, La Pietra)

Antidiscrimination Law Theory  

• “Antidiscrimination Law in the On-Demand Economy” – University of Chicago Law School (Jan. 2017)
• “Antidiscrimination Law and a Right to Discriminate in the Market: A Puzzle” – The University of Chicago Law School Legal Forum Conference on the Disruptive Workplace (Nov. 2016)

Rethinking the Ban on Company – Labor Organization Cooperation

• Seton Hall Employment & Labor Law Scholars’ Forum (October 2015)
• Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (Sept. 2015)
• Young Scholars’ Workshop in Labor Relations, Modena, Italy (March 2015)
• Internet Law Work-in-Progress Conference, Santa Clara University School of Law (March 2015)
• Chicago Junior Faculty Workshop (Feb. 2015)
• Digital Labor Conference, NYC (Nov. 2014)

Invited Commentator

• Forum Discussion Leader, Presidents’ Forum on Online Platform Liability for New York Intellectual Property Law Association (December 2019) (invited)
• Commentator, Erin Beeghly, Does Stereotyping Constitute Discrimination?, Legal Philosophy Workshop (2019)
• Commentator, James Weinstein, The Regulation of Lies in Speech and Elections, Free Speech and Its Discontents Workshop, Princeton. (Dec 2017)
• Commentator, Julia D. Mahoney, The Safety Net and American Exceptionalism (2016) Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, University of Chicago Law School (2016)
• Commentator, Alexander Prescott-Couch, Hermeneutic Justice as Equal Hermeneutic Concern and Group Attitudes Without Group Agents. Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago Law School  (2016)
• Commentator, Tommie Shelby, Chapters 3 and 4 from Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform. Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago Law School  (2015)
• Panel Moderator, Low Wage Work: Getting By & Fighting Back, Digital Labor Conference, NYC (Panel: Frank Pasquale, Miriam Cherry, Winifred Poster) (2014)

* “invited” = invited, accepted, etc. but did not attend

Shorter, More Public-Facing Pieces

• Private Publishers Aren’t State Actors – Manhattan Community Access v. Halleck – Technology & Marketing Law Blog (June 26, 2019) (Part 2 is my commentary)
• Google and Facebook don’t qualify for First Amendment protection – The Guardian (March 9, 2018)
• Does the Packingham Ruling Presage Greater Government Control Over Search Results? Or Less? – Technology & Marketing Law Blog (June 22, 2017)
• PrawfsBlawg, Guest Blogger (July 2015)
  • Silicon Valley, Meet Labor Law
  • A Failure in the Market for Altruism 
  • Abercrombie Settles: Interesting Consumer Discrimination Issue Avoided 
  • Big Week for the Gig Economy
  • When Corporations are Good People: Part Two
  • When Corporations are Good People
  • When does labor law violate the Takings Clause? 
  • Marriage and Other Favored Unions
• McDonald’s and Fast Food Forward – OnLabor (Jan. 5, 2015)
• The Takings Clause and Sweeney v. Pence – OnLabor (Sept. 4, 2014)
  • A response to my piece from James Sherk at the Heritage Foundation (Sept. 8, 2014)
    • My response to James (Sept. 8, 2014)
      • Catherine Fisk’s response to the debate between me and James (Sept. 8, 2014)
• Case Comment (July 2012) – Williams v. Illinois, 132 S.Ct. 2221 (2012)
• Case Comment (Feb. 2012) – United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012)
• Case Note (Sept. 2011) – Wiley & Sons v. Kirtsaeng, 654 F.3d 210 (2d Cir. 2011)
• Book Review (Nov. 2011) – Yochai Benkler, The Penguin and the Leviathan
• other shorter pieces on some combination of science fiction, ethics, and law can be found here.

Expert Commentator (in articles by others)

• Emily Birnbaum, Nunes faces tough odds with Twitter lawsuit, The Hill (March 23, 2019)
• Stephanie Bastek, The Future is Feminist Book Collecting: How women are shaking up the rarefied world of antiquarian books, The American Scholar (Oct. 26, 2018) (interviewed while working with The Second Shelf at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair)
• Rachel Raczka, Tours that offer so much more than a chance to walk in an author’s shoes – Boston Globe (Aug. 30, 2018) (interviewed about the Virginia Woolf reading and walking pilgrimage I took part in over the summer)
• Emily Stewart, Trump keeps complaining about bias on Twitter — but what can he do about it? 8 experts weigh in – Vox (Aug. 23, 2018) (I’m one of the commentators)

Service

• NYU Philosophy Movie Night Organizer (ongoing, self-created role)
• Washington Square Circle Organizer (2018-2019) (NYU graduate student WIP group)
• NYU Climate Committee (2017-2019)

Teaching

• Private Discrimination (University of Chicago Law School) (Spring 2016) (seminar on the law and theory around non-government discrimination, including its regulation)
• Copyright (Harvard Law School edX – under Terry Fisher) (Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) (both US and international law and theory)
• Legal Research & Writing  (University of Chicago Law School) (2014-15 and 2015-16)