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@margotkaminski.bsky.social
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Professor at Colorado Law. Data privacy, AI, speech.

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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What is speech, and can AI produce it? "AI and the Doctrine of Speakerless Speech" with @aselbst.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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AI and the Doctrine of Speakerless Speech
What makes speech “speech” for purposes of the First Amendment? Although the Supreme Court has developed elaborate doctrines governing when speech may be regula
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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm so grateful for the support of so many friends with this article, including @chup.blakereid.org @margotkaminski.bsky.social @anupamchander.bsky.social @lauradolbow.bsky.social @mailynfidler.bsky.social @tnarecha.bsky.social @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social @zahrsaid.bsky.social & more!
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"Everything has to happen somewhere" - Tim Wu on the "catalytic spaces" or platforms where everything hapoens
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I'm grateful and delighted to have received the Moses Lasky Professorship www.colorado.edu/law/2025/10/.... (and congratulations to my colleagues for well-earned recognition!)
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Colorado Law names new Professorships, Dean’s Scholars Award Recipients
Colorado Law is thrilled to announce our newest Professorships, along with the three recipients of the Dean’s Scholar Awards. These individuals already bring
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
See also Alan Chen's response, Pluralism and Listeners' Choices Online. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/p...
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Pluralism and Listeners’ Choices Online – Southern California Law Review
“The plain, if at times disquieting, truth is that in our pluralistic society, constantly proliferating new and ingenious forms of…
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Listeners' Choices Online is now online. I hope you will choose to listen to it! james.grimmelmann.net/files/articl...
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Danny Wilf-Townsend @dannywt.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
It was very nice to have two of my recent articles featured in JOTWELL reviews this month—Maureen Carroll on "Deterring Unenforceable Terms," courtslaw.jotwell.com/should-draft... and @margotkaminski.bsky.social on "The Deletion Remedy" cyber.jotwell.com/ai-disgorgem...
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Should drafters be penalized for clearly unenforceable terms? - Courts Law
Daniel Wilf-Townsend, Deterring Unenforceable Terms, 111 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025), available at SSRN (June 6, 2024).Maureen CarrollMost of us (if not all) have entered a contract with one or ...
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Two great new articles on AI "recalls" (aka model disgorgement): cyber.jotwell.com/ai-disgorgem...
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AI Disgorgement or AI Recalls: A Trip down Remedy Lane - Technology Law
Daniel Wilf-Townsend, The Deletion Remedy, 103 N. Car. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025), available at SSRN (Sept. 20, 2024). Christina Lee, Beyond Algorithmic Disgorgement: Remedying Algorithmic Harms, ...
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Essential reading for AI law - @margotkaminski.bsky.social and @aselbst.bsky.social - "An American's Guide to the EU AI Act" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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An American's Guide to the EU AI Act
<p>The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. The AI Act is long. It is complicated. It relies on a regulatory framework and institutions unfamiliar to ma
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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The AI Act is a long and confusing piece of legislation that relies heavily on other EU laws and institutions. If you’re a US lawyer who doesn’t have a background in EU law, then even if you read it there’s probably a bunch you missed. Good news! We’ve got a paper for you!
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
An American's Guide to the EU AI Act papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... With @aselbst.bsky.social
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An American's Guide to the EU AI Act
<p>The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. The AI Act is long. It is complicated. It relies on a regulatory framework and institutions unfamiliar to ma
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"In the race to figure out just what AI systems are good for, our kids should not be treated as experiments." The fight to preserve AI regulation and protect children isn't over thehill.com/opinion/tech... with Prof. Jones in The Hill
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The EU AI Act establishes a different right to explanation of an AI system's decisions than the GDPR: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (by Kaminski & Malgieri)
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The Right to Explanation in the AI Act
This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of Article 86 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which introduces a right to explanation for individuals affect
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Right to Explanation in the EU AI Act, Explained papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Art. 86 commentary for those interested
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The Right to Explanation in the AI Act
This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of Article 86 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which introduces a right to explanation for individuals affect
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm honored to have received the Sandgrund Award @ Colorado Law for Best Consumer Rights Work, for Regulating the Risks of AI (published 2023, available here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) Hopefully that consumer rights work doesn't immediately get preempted.
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Regulating the Risks of AI
Companies and governments now use Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in a wide range of settings. But using AI leads to well-known risks that arguably present chall
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW JOB: The Knight Institute (@knightcolumbia.org) is looking for a staff attorney to join us for a two-year position. It's an extremely busy time for the First Amendment, and we could use some more hands on deck! knightcolumbia.org/page/staff_a...
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| Knight First Amendment Institute
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A great and substantive two days of Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference @yaleisp.bsky.social . Panel on the substance, scope, and methods of the Internet Law Canon was a highlight (with Balkin, Reid @chup.blakereid.org, Weiland @morganweiland.bsky.social) @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ooh! I got cited in the en banc right-to-record case (Project Veritas) in the Ninth Circuit, along with other great scholars in that space. It's encouraging when hard work gets read and used. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Poorly designed algorithms used to make consequential decisions... lead to a loss of trust in government and costly redesign." Deirdre Mulligan, making the case that the responsible AI governance in government is both good policy and better financial decisionmaking.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
From Gods to Google is now out in the Yale Law Journal Following First Amendment challenges to tech regulations? We tell a different story of the caselaw: not (just) Lochnerean but the output of this Court’s religious speakers cases www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/from...
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From Gods to Google
The First Amendment is a well-known barrier to sensible technology regulation. While scholars blame the Court’s libertarian turn, we offer another explanation: the Court’s solicitude for religious spe...
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
At Berkeley today www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...
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28th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: AI Governance at the Crossroads
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just presented "From Gods to Google" @gwlaw.bsky.social, which tracks the Court's religious speaker cases and the (surprising?) arsenal they create for tech companies, especially in lower courts. SCOTUS faces a First Amendment impasse of its own making. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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From Gods to Google
<p>The First Amendment has become a significant barrier to sensible technology regulation. The conventional explanation for this is the Court’s deregulatory tur
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The last thing I'll say about TikTok (for now) is that it is an absolute boon to data privacy laws facing First Amendment challenges. One big move: SCOTUS distinguishes between a government interest in preventing harmful "data collection," and a government interest in regulating speech.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
TikTok is the U.S. Schrems. Discuss.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 22/03/2024
Join @jennifercobbe.bsky.social @margotkaminski.bsky.social @agstrait.bsky.social & me at UCL Laws, in person/online, to compare AI Act/AI EO, DSA/OSA, & GDPR's approaches to algorithmic assessment — 25 Apr 6pm. Who undertakes this analysis, and with what consequences? www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment: Robust Delegation or
Margot Kaminski, Michael Veale and Jennifer Cobbe will compare and contrast different AI regulatory regimes
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
"It is tempting to ask whether AI-generated speech “disrupts” the law. That, we claim, is the wrong question." Constructing AI Speech, with Meg Jones, forthcoming in Yale Law Journal Forum (online): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
"From Gods to Google" forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... with Rebecca Aviel, Toni Massaro, & Andrew Woods "free expression principles the Court has developed for religious believers make it difficult to protect against significant harms that technologies can cause"
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
It's official: I'm writing a casebook (!) on AI Law with @aselbst.bsky.social and Paul Ohm aila.ws We have an initial framework for it from Paul's fall class and I'll be working on it all spring (among other projects). So happy to be working with this particular team.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Starting tomorrow (!) I'll be in Florence for five months at the European University Institute as a Senior Fellow and Fulbright-Schuman grantee. Lots of gratitude here for this amazing experience.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
I'm half Israeli, on my father's side. Social media is hell right now. I'm going to be off of here and other platforms for a good long bit. L'hitraot.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
This generative AI and Copyright panel is fantastic (including Viva Moffet, Oren Bracha, Kate Lee, Andy Gass, Cynthia Arato, with Harry Surden moderating)
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Law students — come work with us next summer on an exciting docket of cases dealing with free speech and new technology! (And some analog-era cases, too, just to stay grounded). The deadline for 2Ls and LLMs to apply is 10/29: knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-2024…
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Learned so much from papers I'm discussing at We Robot: @claireboine's marvelous paper on evolving definition of AI in EU AI Act (bu.edu/law/files/20...) & @bea_botero's important examination of how AI Liability Directive compliments (or doesn't) AI Act (bu.edu/law/files/20...)
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Regulating the Risks of AI describes the growing convergence around risk regulation in AI governance. It then addresses the question: what does it mean to use risk regulation to govern AI systems? (the newly revised ~65 page version) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
We Robot-ing
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
The ND Cal. First Amendment decision on the California children's privacy law (CAADCA) is a bad one. The judge does not appear to understand or accept the first thing about data privacy. It should make everyone/every state with data privacy laws nervous.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Starting the Italian visa process. ...
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
@salome.bsky.social and I just posted our new article, "Valuing Social Data" on SSRN. We are still working to incorporate comments and would love additional feedback! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abs…
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
If Hunger Games is the entry level academic market, then Creed III is mid-career academia.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
"Current First Amendment doctrine constructs the legal puzzle of content production by AI systems as a question of what happens when you substitute an individual human actor with AI...the legal puzzle of AI “speech” boils down to how to adapt scienter requirements for speech produced by AI systems."
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
X. Wtf.
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 23/07/2023
Why am I awake and editing at 6:30 AM you ask? Because I couldn't find the time to write a short Article, so I wrote a long one instead. (And the bill comes due at editing time...)
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Deep in thoughts right now on Counterman/Taamneh implications for AI and the First Amendment, for a mid-length piece I'm drafting with Meg Jones
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Hiring in IP this year (among many other areas)...
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
Well hi
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