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 in The Perilous Public Square Structural Threats to Free Expression Today (forthcoming Columbia University Press 2020) (David E. Pozen, ed.) (link)
• Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy, contribution to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University’s Emerging Threats series (here and on ssrn) (David Pozen ed.)
• Search Engines, Free Speech Coverage, and the Limits of Analogical Reasoning in Free Speech in the Digial Age (Susan J. Brison & Kath Gelber, eds.) (Oxford University Press 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) (invited)
• 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

• Commentator, Discrimination and Criminalization, Athena in Action Conference (2020)
• 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)