CFP: Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop 2023

I’m thrilled to be hosting a conference here at the University  of Oregon in October 2023. More information and the CFP for the Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop 2023 is available here: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ssnoregon2023/ (abstract submission deadline is June 30, 2023). The theme of the conference is tied to bringing media studies, information studies/data studies, communication, and…Continue Reading CFP: Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop 2023

New Article: Regulating the US Consumer Data Market

I’m very pleased to announce that my new paper, “Regulating the US Consumer Data Market: Comparing the Material Scope of US Consumer Data Privacy Laws and the GDPR” (with Nadya Purtova, Young Eun Moon, and Hugh Paterson) will be published in volume 45 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law in AY 2023-24….Continue Reading New Article: Regulating the US Consumer Data Market

Ranking Law & Technology Journals – 2022

One the limitations of the annual Meta-Ranking I publish is that it only applies to flagship law reviews at ABA-approved law schools in the US. One of the requests I get is to include secondary (or specialty) journals. With this post, I wanted to provide some initial insight into how Law and Technology journals might…Continue Reading Ranking Law & Technology Journals – 2022

“Body-Worn Cameras: what we know and where to go” (podcast)

I am thrilled to have been interviewed alongside Drs. Alana Saulnier (Lakehead University), Cynthia Lum (George Mason University), and Michael White (Arizona State University) for a new podcast episode (“Body-Worn Cameras: what we know and where to go“) produced by the Centre for Research on Security Practices at Wilfrid Laurier University. Check it out! “In…Continue Reading “Body-Worn Cameras: what we know and where to go” (podcast)

New Book: Police Visibility (coming in June 2021)

Coming in June 2021 from University of California Press! Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras presents empirically grounded research into how police officers experience and manage the information politics of surveillance and visibility generated by the introduction of body cameras into their daily routines and the increasingly common experience of…Continue Reading New Book: Police Visibility (coming in June 2021)

New paper: Body-worn cameras: Technological frames and project abandonment

I’m thrilled to announce that my paper with Marthinus Koen and Melinda Roberts has been published in the Journal of Criminal Justice. The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101773 Abstract This case study examines the technological frames of administrators and users regarding the implementation of body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police Department, a mid-sized police organization…Continue Reading New paper: Body-worn cameras: Technological frames and project abandonment

2020 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews is here!

I’ve published the 2020 Edition of my meta-ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews here. The Table on that page provides a searchable way to compare law journal rankings based on Meta-Rank, US News Peer Reputation scores, US News Overall scores, Google Scholar Metrics values, and Washington & Lee Law Journal Ranking scores. As always, I…Continue Reading 2020 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews is here!

Lectures on police visibility and border surveillance @ LMU Munich

Radical Visibility lecture

I was honored to give two lectures, based on my research (one along with Sara Vannini, now at the University of Sheffield), to faculty, researchers, and students at LMU Munich this week (via Zoom). Their poster for the events are embedded below. [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/bcnewell/files/2020/06/radical-visibility1.pdf” download=”none” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/bcnewell/files/2020/06/Surveillance-on-the-Border-Poster.pdf” viewer=”google” ]…Continue Reading Lectures on police visibility and border surveillance @ LMU Munich

2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews is here!

I’ve published the 2019 Edition of my meta-ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews here. The Table on that page provides a searchable way to compare law journal rankings based on Meta-Rank, US News Peer Reputation scores, US News Overall scores, Google Scholar Metrics values, and Washington & Lee Law Journal Ranking scores. As always, I…Continue Reading 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews is here!

CFP: Information Ethics Roundtable (IER) 2018 – Copenhagen, May 17-18, 2018

I am serving on the Organizing Committee for the 2018 Information Ethics Roundtable. Our CFP is below: Information Ethics Roundtable 2018 Surveillance, Algorithms, and Digital Culture University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 17-18, 2018 Proposals Due: February 5, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: March 5, 2018 Full papers due: April 23, 2018 http://www.ier2018.info/ The 16th annual Information Ethics…Continue Reading CFP: Information Ethics Roundtable (IER) 2018 – Copenhagen, May 17-18, 2018