Wednesday, February 1st, 6:00pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.This month's presentations will include:
Transparency with(out) Accountability: The Effects of the Internet on the Administrative State
The paper analyzes a variety of online transparency policies and initiatives (e.g., Regulations.gov, Data.gov, USAspending.gov, Recovery.gov) and examines their effectiveness in improving the accountability of federal agencies to the public. Arguing that both the design and implementation of these policies are flawed from an accountability perspective, the paper offers an alternative framework for online regulatory transparency.
Jennifer Shkabatur is a doctoral candidate (SJD) at Harvard Law School, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. In 2010-11, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Law, teaching Internet Law. She earned an LLM from Harvard Law School in 2007, MA in Political Science, and LLB from Tel Aviv University. Before her studies at Harvard, she clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel.
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