About Information and Algorithmic Governance
The reign of law as we have known it may be coming to an end, or at the very least, to a major transformation. Emerging technologies and forms of information—black-box algorithms, LLMs with de facto agency, realistic deepfakes, algorithmic content-filtering, biometric identification, information mining, the consolidation of media power, and much more—may require us to ask whether law’s traditional regulatory and normative functions are being supplanted, if not displaced, by new forms of information and algorithmic governance. This course will challenge students to consider what law is as well as what it may become.
Assignments
This page is the one you’ll come back to often. It contains our initial assignments and will be updated regularly to reflect new assignments and any changes.
Contains information on the course, important links, books, learning methodology, grading, and much more. In short, the stuff we’ll be doing and why. Syllabus
Draft added Jan. 14, 2026