Olivier Sylvain
Professor of Law
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Olivier is a Professor of Law at Fordham University. His research is in information and communications law and policy. His most recent writing, scholarship, and public speaking engagements are on liability under the Communications Decency Act, the social impacts of artificial intelligence and community-owned networked computing. The National Science Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have awarded him grants to support this work. He currently holds an appointment as a Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Olivier teaches Legislation and Regulation, Administrative Law, Information Law, U.S. Data Protection Law and Privacy, and information law related courses. At Fordham, he has been the Director of the McGannon Center for Communications Research, the Academic Director of the Center for Law and Information Policy, and a research affiliate at the Center on Race, Law, and Justice. Before entering academia, Olivier was a Karpatkin Fellow in the National Legal Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City and a litigation associate at Jenner & Block, LLC, in Washington, D.C. Until September 2021, he was the Board President of the ACLU's New York affiliate and sat on the Academic Advisory Board for the Open Markets Institute and the Advisory Committee for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative.
Education
- Williams College, BA
- Georgetown University Law Center, JD
- Columbia University, PhD
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Representative Publications
Recovering Tech's Humanity, 119 Colum. L. Rev. Forum 252 (2019)
The Market for User Data, 29 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 1087 (2019)
Integrative Information Platforms: The Case of Zero-Rating, 2 Georgetown Law & Technology Review 360 (2018)
Intermediary Design Duties, 50 Connecticut Law Rev.203 (2018)
Network Equality, 67 Hastings L. J. 443 (2016)
Disruption and Deference, 74 Maryland L. Rev. 715 (2015)
Legitimacy and Expertise in Global Internet Governance, 13 Co. Tech. L. J. 31 (2014)
Wireless Localism, 20 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 121 (2013)
Broadband Localism, 73 Ohio St. L. J. 795 (2012)
Internet Governance and Democratic Legitimacy, 62 Fed. Comm. L. J. 205 (2010)