I am an Assistant Professor of media law and policy in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

My teaching and research are focused on issues of  law and technology, surveillance, media/internet law, and information law and politics. My primary research interests are in privacy and surveillance (particularly within the contexts of policing and criminal justice), access to information, and aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure that pertain to the use of ICTs by police or members of society. I am also Dialogue Editor for the journal Surveillance & Society and a Board Member of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) (a registered UK charity/nonprofit organization).

I earned my Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington, where I was affiliated with the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab, the Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center, and the Program on Values in Society. I received my Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law. I am licensed to practice law in California (currently inactive), and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow, hosted by CIPPIC at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Ottawa, Ontario).

Prior to coming to the University of Oregon, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

My documentary and video production work has been exhibited at museums in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, and has been screened at film festivals and on university campuses across the United States. I have discussed my research on NPR (All Things Considered) and written about body-worn cameras for Slate. My research has been cited in a variety of academic journals as well as the New York Times Magazine.

News:

• In Fall 2019, I will be moving to the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication, where I will be an assistant professor of media law and policy. [04/19]
• I am now Dialogue Editor for Surveillance & Society and a Board Member of the Surveillance Studies Network. [01/19]
• I am excited to be jointly appointed (0% FTE) in the UK Department of Sociology. [11/18]
• I co-edited a special symposium section for Law & Social Inquiry (with Sarah Brayne and Karen Levy) on “Visual Data and the Law.” The issue is now live. [11/18]
• My new article, “Context, visibility, and control: Police work and the contested objectivity of bystander video” has just been published by New Media & Society! [7/18]
• My book, Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (which I co-edited along with Bert-Jaap Koops and Tjerk Timan) has been published by Routledge. The book is part of the new Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series. [7/18]
• I wrote an invited foreword for the newest issue of the European Data Protection Law Review, entitled “Privacy as Antipower: In Pursuit of Non-Domination.” [4/18]
• My new article, The Reasonableness of Remaining Unobserved: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Surveillance and Voyeurism in Criminal Law (with Bert-Jaap Koops, Andrew Roberts, Ivan Škorvánek, and Maša Galič) has been published in Law & Social Inquiry. [1/18]