Alan Z. Rozenshtein

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What Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation Reveals About the State of American Democracy

On the surface, the fall of Andrew Cuomo is a story about the continuing reverberations of the #MeToo movement, of a politician whose long history...

Did the Justice Department Give President Biden Legal Advice on the CDC Eviction Moratorium?

Last Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a new moratorium on evictions as part of an effort to fight the COVID pandemic. This...

The Real Takeaway From the Enjoining of the Florida Social Media Law

On June 30, Judge Robert Hinkle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida preliminarily enjoined a controversial Florida law targeting social...

Digital Disease Surveillance

The slowdown of the coronavirus emergency in the United States presents an opportunity to look back and think about how policymakers could have handled it...

Call for Papers: Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2021

The first annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at the University of Minnesota Law School on Oct. 1-2, 2021. The...

No, Facebook and Google Are Not State Actors

In a provocative recent piece, Jed Rubenfeld argues that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 transforms technology companies into state actors for...

The WhatsApp-NSO Group Lawsuit and the Limits of Lawful Hacking

On Oct. 29, WhatsApp sued the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group for installing surveillance malware on the phones of more than a thousand WhatsApp users,...