Privacy Law Scholars Conference honors Viljoen paper
A paper co-authored by Michigan Law professor Salomé Viljoen has won the 2023 Reidenberg-Kerr Award at the year’s Privacy Law Scholars Conference.
The conference presents the award for “overall excellence of a paper submitted by a pre-tenure scholar.” This year’s conference honored "Valuing Social Data," co-authored by Viljoen and Amanda Parsons of the University of Colorado Law School. The paper explores “how data production creates value and how legal regimes like privacy and tax are poorly equipped to grapple with and regulate data value,” Viljoen said.
“It is really such an honor to have this work recognized. As a junior scholar just starting out, it means so much to receive this kind of affirmation from scholars whose work I admire and that influences my own. It feels like a vote of confidence that Amanda and I are on the right track with our ideas,” Viljoen said.
Viljoen, who joined the faculty last year as an assistant professor of law, studies the information economy—particularly data about people and the automated systems that are trained on such data. Her academic work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, and others. She also writes essays and articles for publications such as Nature, the Guardian, and Logic Magazine.
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is considered the premier gathering of privacy scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the world. It supports scholarship at the intersection of law and technology.
Law school hosts Happy Hour at Ferndale Project
Wayne State University Law School will host a Happy Hour at Ferndale Project on Tuesday, August 15, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Wayne Law alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends will gather to close out the summer with a happy hour at the Ferndale Project located at 567 Livernois in Ferndale.
To register, visit https://events.wayne.edu/law/2023/08. Guests who register in advance will receive a drink token for a free beverage courtesy of Wayne Law. Food and additional beverages will be available for purchase at the venue.
For questions, contact Wendy Wippich, alumni relations officer for the law school, by emailing wendywippich@wayne.edu.
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