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Catherine Crump | TED Speaker

Catherine Crump is an assistant clinical professor at Berkeley Law School who focuses on the laws around data and surveillance.
Attorney + privacy advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/catherine_crump

Anthony D. Romero | TED Speaker

Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anthony_d_romero

Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas

Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaking and a healthy dose of PR.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kristina_gjerde_making_law_on_the_high_seas

Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law

Every human deserves protection under their country’s laws — even when that law is forgotten or ignored. Sharing three cases from her international legal practice, Kimberley Motley, an American litigator practicing in Afghanistan and elsewhere, shows how a country’s own laws can bring both justice and “justness”: using the law for its intended p...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberley_motley_how_i_defend_the_rule_of_law

Dick M. Carpenter II: The injustice of "policing for profit" -- and how to end it

Many countries have an active, centuries-old law that allows government agencies to take your things -- your house, your car, your business -- without ever convicting you of a crime. Law researcher Dick M. Carpenter II exposes how this practice of civil forfeiture threatens your rights and creates a huge monetary incentive for law enforcement to...
https://www.ted.com/talks/dick_m_carpenter_ii_the_injustice_of_policing_for_profit_and_how_to_end_it

Vivek Maru: How to put the power of law in people's hands

What can you do when the wheels of justice don't turn fast enough? Or when they don't turn at all? Vivek Maru is working to transform the relationship between people and law, turning law from an abstraction or threat into something that everyone can understand, use and shape. Instead of relying solely on lawyers, Maru started a global network of...
https://www.ted.com/talks/vivek_maru_how_to_put_the_power_of_law_in_people_s_hands

Steven Wise | TED Speaker

By challenging long-held legal notions of “personhood”, Steven Wise seeks to grant cognitively advanced animals access to a full spectrum of fundamental rights.
Animal rights lawyer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/steven_wise

Drew Curtis | TED Speaker

Drew Curtis is the founder and administrator of Fark.com.
Web entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/drew_curtis

Peter Ouko: From death row to law graduate

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other grown men for 23 and a half hours a day. In a moving talk, he tells the story of how he was freed -- and his current mission with the African Prisons Project: to set up the first law school behind bars and empower people in prison to drive positive c...
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_ouko_from_death_row_to_law_graduate

Alessandro Acquisti | TED Speaker

What motivates you to share your personal information online? Alessandro Acquisti studies the behavioral economics of privacy (and information security) in social networks.
Privacy economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alessandro_acquisti

Sandra Fisher-Martins | TED Speaker

Sandra Fisher-Martins fights “information apartheid” -- the barrier created by overly complex language.
Translator, plain language activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sandra_fisher_martins

William Black | TED Speaker

William Black is a professor of economics and law at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Academic
https://www.ted.com/speakers/william_black

Elizabeth Loftus | TED Speaker

Memory-manipulation expert Elizabeth Loftus explains how our memories might not be what they seem -- and how implanted memories can have real-life repercussions.
False memories scholar
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elizabeth_loftus

Kimberley Motley | TED Speaker

American lawyer Kimberley Motley is the only Western litigator in Afghanistan's courts; as her practice expands to other countries, she thinks deeply about how to build the capacity of rule of law globally.
International litigator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kimberley_motley

Playlist: Truths about the US prison system (7 talks)

These engaging talks explore the systemic issues of the US criminal justice system and how they plague everyday people and society as a whole.
Curated by TED · 7 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/truths_about_the_us_prison_system

Andrew Arruda: The world's first AI legal assistant

As a lawyer, Andrew Arruda too often saw the scales of justice tip in favor of the wealthy and partnered with a computer scientist to create the world's first artificially intelligent legal assistant, ROSS. By speeding up legal research, Arruda wants ROSS to make the practice of law cheaper and fulfill the original promise of "justice for all."
https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_arruda_the_world_s_first_ai_legal_assistant

Frans von der Dunk: The importance of space lawyers

Who's liable if a passenger is injured on the first spacecraft to take tourists off-planet? For that matter, what's the legal definition of a spacecraft? Professor of space law Frans von der Dunk deploys lawyer jokes and policy critiques to illustrate how the world is woefully unprepared for the legal implications of space travel.
https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_von_der_dunk_the_importance_of_space_lawyers

Yochai Benkler | TED Speaker

Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production.
Legal expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/yochai_benkler

Jennifer Lu: Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle?

You're the realm's greatest mathematician, but ever since you criticized the Emperor's tax laws, you've been locked in the dungeon. Luckily for you, one of the Emperor's governors has been convicted of paying his taxes with a counterfeit coin, which has made its way into the treasury. Can you earn your freedom by finding the fake? Jennifer Lu sh...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_lu_can_you_solve_the_counterfeit_coin_riddle

Neha Madhira and Haley Stack: Why student journalists should be protected from censorship

High school newspaper editors Neha Madhira and Haley Stack share how they fought back when their critical journalism faced the threat of censorship. Learn more about how their efforts expanded to lobbying for New Voices, a law which would extend First Amendment protections to student journalism, and which has now passed in multiple states.
https://www.ted.com/talks/neha_madhira_and_haley_stack_why_student_journalists_should_be_protected_from_censorship

Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system

The land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard -- especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four propositions for simplifying US law.
https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_k_howard_four_ways_to_fix_a_broken_legal_system

Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing

Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_cobley_what_physics_taught_me_about_marketing

Onora O'Neill | TED Speaker

Baroness Onora O'Neill is a philosopher who focuses on international justice and the roles of trust and accountability in public life.
Philosopher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/onora_o_neill

Karima Bennoune | TED Speaker

Karima Bennoune's new book introduces the world to people who speak out against fundamentalist terrorism.
Professor of international law
https://www.ted.com/speakers/karima_bennoune

Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_as_random_acts_of_kindness

Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do?

Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? In the "Justice" program that bears his name, Harvard professor Michael Sandel probes these questions -- and asks what you think, and why.
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_what_s_the_right_thing_to_do

Tania Simoncelli: Should you be able to patent a human gene?

A decade ago, US law said human genes were patentable -- which meant patent holders had the right to stop anyone from sequencing, testing or even looking at a patented gene. Troubled by the way this law both harmed patients and created a barrier to biomedical innovation, Tania Simoncelli and her colleagues at the ACLU challenged it. In this rive...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tania_simoncelli_should_you_be_able_to_patent_a_human_gene

Noah Feldman | TED Speaker

Noah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law.
Constitutional law scholar
https://www.ted.com/speakers/noah_feldman

Ron McCallum | TED Speaker

Blind almost since birth, Ron McCallum is one of Australia's most respected legal scholars, and an activist on behalf of disabled people around the globe.
Labor lawyer and activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ron_mccallum

Joy Lin: If superpowers were real: Body mass

What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere mortals. [Directed by Cognitive Media, narrated by James Arnold Taylor].
https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_lin_if_superpowers_were_real_body_mass
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