Past Events

On Feb. 29, 2024, Just Security welcomed the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to NYU School of Law for an event in celebration of Just Security’s 10th anniversary year. Just Security’s Co-Editors-in-Chief, Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman, introduced Director Haines who delivered remarks regarding strategic declassification, the role of law, and transparency in the […]

AI stands to “radically alter” or “revolutionize” law practice, according to recent reports from, respectively, the Economist magazine and the Brookings Institution. Both suggested the that the jobs of junior associates at big law firms are particularly at risk from the technology. A New York Times article offered a more cautious take, saying that “the impact of the new […]

This day long Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy & Data Protection Scholars Conference provides an opportunity for professors in law, economics, accounting, finance, management, information system, operations management, and marketing who began their full-time tenure-track career in or after 2016 to present their latest research. Senior scholars and practitioners in the field will comment […]

Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents our January 26, 2024 program, Regs Risk & Opportunity: New Cyber Rules, AI’s Impact, Evolving Your Career. Returning to in-person programming, more than a dozen leaders, including government officials, corporate board members, industry VPs, law firm partners, and professors will share insight on the new cyber rules from the SEC […]

As interest in AI surges around the world, interest by governments in regulating it is also surging. Many nations have enacted or are considering a range of measures, including pursuing cross-border collaborations for a consistent approach. Concerns about the risks and harms of AI technology are wide-ranging, including fairness, privacy, safety, and transparency. Regulatory discussions […]

The narratives around AI and Cybersecurity are the modern day Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: turn to page 10 and AI is solving many of today’s cyber problems and ushering in a new era of strong privacy protections and digital security. But turn to page 20 and AI is instead empowering attackers to overwhelm defenses and undermine the digital foundations […]

In this virtual discussion, a panel of leading experts with diverse perspectives will examine the current state of play with respect to proposed legislation and the prospects for reauthorization; areas of likely or imaginable compromise; how U.S. national security and individual privacy could be impacted by various proposals; and what might lie ahead for the […]

Join us in this full day, multi-panel event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic!

 Please join NYU Law and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity for a conference on AI Crime, Security & International Regulation on November 9. This conference will consider both the opportunities and risks of AI in crime, national security, and international regulation. Senior government, industry, and civil society speakers will discuss tools and capabilities of AI […]

The Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts, The Engelberg Center, and The Information Law Institute cordially invite you to AI and the Law: The Latest on IP, Copyright, and More with Fabio Bertoni, General Counsel for The New Yorker on October 24, 2023 from 11am – 12pm with a reception to follow. This is a hybrid event and this event […]

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West tells the story of a century-long espionage war between Russia and the West. In Walton’s telling, the Cold War began earlier than is widely understood and extended beyond the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, fueled by an asymmetric conflict of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Walton’s […]

Many commentators have sounded the alarm about bias in artificial intelligence and other digital technology. But what if such technology could instead be a powerful tool to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion? In her book The Equality Machine, legal and tech scholar Orly Lobel argues that digital technology holds tremendous promise—it can detect discrimination, close pay […]

China has rapidly emerged as a global leader in artificial intelligence, closely rivalling the United States. China is also at the forefront of regulating AI. It has proactively introduced some of the world’s earliest and most comprehensive rules concerning algorithms, deepfakes, and chatbots, among others. Angela Zhang, global professor of law at NYU School of Law, […]

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a widely used disruptive technology. It is, however, far from the first technology to disrupt economic and social paradigms. Societies have adapted to such technologies in the past. This half-day conference will consider how society may adapt to generative AI. Our speakers will consider concerns that have been raised about […]

On Wednesday, September 13th, the Engelberg Center and Creative Commons are co-sponsoring a full day of critical conversations with experts across generative AI, cultural heritage, and contemporary creativity. This event is being held in-person. Sessions will be recorded and published after the event.

Breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to change society, commerce and every profession.  This conference will examine how AI will affect the law and the legal profession. Leading experts, professors, scientists, regulators, and lawyers will consider how AI will affect and shape our future.  With generative AI, large language models becoming proto-artificial general […]

Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents the July 2023 program AI Trust & Security: What Executives, Boards and Their Advisors Should Know, an insightful discussion on key issues, challenges, trends and best practices regarding AI’s impact on organizations today.  Hear from Ireland’s AI Ambassador and an AI business founder; a corporate director and former CEO; CISOs; and legal […]

How to regulate “generative AI” is now a major question across the world. The Italian Data Protection Authority’s orders against OpenAI’s operations of ChatGPT in Italy highlighted tensions between the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and generative AI infrastructures trained on massive datasets involving both personal and non-personal data. The emergence of generative AI […]

The emergence of interconnected cyber-physical systems and sensor/actuator networks has given rise to advanced automation applications, where a large amount of sensor data is collected and processed in order to make suitable real-time decisions and to achieve the desired control objectives. However, in situations where some components behave abnormally or become faulty, this may lead […]

Join Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner for an exclusive preview of their forthcoming book, The AI Dilemma, 7 Principles for Responsible Technology.   Generative content creators. Self-driving vehicles. Predictive analytics. Data collections. In the right hands, they’re beneficial to all. In the wrong hands, they amplify human bias and harm vulnerable people. In this fireside chat, we will discuss how […]

The release of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion have raised numerous concerns—from copyright infringement to defamation to the unlawful disclosure of personal information. Several lawsuits have already been filed against their makers, with more likely to come. On the input side, artists, photographers, graphic artists, journalists, and software coders have […]

The Annual New York Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago, Japan has begun significantly upgrading its national security posture. It announced plans to double defense-related expenditures to equal 2 percent of GDP in five years and updated three of its key national security documents. Meanwhile, Japan and the US have strengthened their alliance through a Biden-Kishida summit […]

Join NIST and expert panelists and leaders on February 15, 2023, from 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EST, for this second virtual workshop to discuss potential updates to the Cybersecurity Framework. This event will discuss potential significant changes to the Framework as outlined in the soon-to-be-released CSF Concept Paper, as well as build on feedback from the 2022 NIST […]

Please join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for a virtual book talk to celebrate the release of Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Say the Right Thing is a practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations about our differences […]

The NYU Tandon NYC Media Lab invites you to join us for an informative discussion on OpenAI’s newly launched chatbot ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer). ChatGPT is a prompted dialogue AI chatbot utilizing natural language processing tasks such as text generation and language translation. We will discuss ChatGPT’s impact and challenges within the landscape of education, […]

On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST Erez Liebermann will be speaking on a virtual panel entitled The Changing Tides of Regulation: Navigating New Regulatory Requirements and Guidance Around Cybersecurity and Ransomware. The conference’s faculty includes senior government cybersecurity officials from the FBI and OFAC, and nearly two dozen other legal and consulting […]

As China slowly emerges from its self-imposed COVID-19 isolation and entry becomes easier for foreign businessmen, a critical question that has been pushed to the side will return to the fore: is European business still in love with China? When the pandemic began in 2020, Europe was China’s largest trading partner and Chinese investment into […]

Using blockchain and CBDC as examples, we will explore China’s latest innovation policy and the post-20th Party Congress US-China tech race, from AI and semiconductor chips to quantum computing and electric cars. Winston Ma, the author of Blockchain and Web3: Building the Cryptocurrency, Privacy, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse, will discuss these questions with […]

Fordham Law Professor Carl Minzner will share his analysis of what we can expect for the next decade (or more) of Xi Jinping rule, based on the speeches and documents from the party congress and other recent messaging. He also will discuss what all this could mean for foreign scholars trying to conduct research in […]

Deluge Data, Data Deluge is online talk series and in-person symposium that brings critical perspectives from the humanities and arts into dialogue with engineering and data practitioners engaged in flood sensing.

Join the NYU Tandon School of Engineering entrepreneurial ecosystem​, and sign up for the Future Labs’ no-cost, virtual 8-week crash course in launching your own company. Apply by December 6, 2022.

Professor of Law Sarah Lamdan will discuss her new book, Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information with MarketWatch Enterprise Reporter Shoshana Wodinsky.

A conversation exploring how FemTech data can be used, and the privacy laws and legislation that can be leveraged to protect users.

While the internet and digital technologies has delivered wonders, they have also revealed, exacerbated, or simply thrown into stark relief a misalignment between intellectual property and competition law, our fundamental values, and expectations for a just society. In Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin and her co-author Cory Doctorow explore how creative labor markets have been captured and distorted, suggesting […]

Join NYU Tandon School of Engineering to hear David Moon, a four-year US Air Force veteran with Secret clearance, speak to the cyber community at NYU. David is an expert information security and executive-level technology professional with a 20+ year portfolio of some of the most ground-breaking and high-value project results in information security, technology, […]

Please join us on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, for a Fireside Chat with Rostin Benham, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Co-Director and Professor Rob Jackson and Senior Research Fellow Allison Herren Lee, both former SEC Commissioners, focusing on the regulation of digital assets.

We are thrilled to announce Nicole Perlroth, Advisor to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will join “When Prevention Can’t Keep Up: Zero-Day Attacks and the Necessity of Cyber Risk Detection” on September 15 at 11 a.m. ET.

In this faculty lecture, Justin Cappos, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering will cover what specific efforts make it harder for attackers to compromise the means by which software is created and distributed. A specific area of focus will be on what tools one can use in practice to combat such attackers.