Amid growing public demands for greater accountability from technology companies, the public has turned to scientists to be arbiters of questions of technology harm and fundamental rights— especially on issues of causality.

How can scientists inform courts about these questions? What standards of evidence might courts end up using in some of these cases? And how can we build a healthy ecosystem that supports scientists to develop research that can reliably inform courts about potential future cases on technology and society?

If you’re interested in these questions, please join me and Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project for a conversation at the Coalition for Independent Tech Research Wednesday October 29th.


Date: 29 Oct
Time: 1:00pm ET/ 17:00 GMT
Register on Zoom here.

At the event we’ll discuss the role of scientists in courts and what we can do to better support this important institution of democracy. You don’t have to be a Coalition member to join; we would love to have you!

If you would like to do some reading before the event, I encourage you to see an article by me and my collaborator Jon Penney on Science and Causality in Technology Litigation, and this excellent article in Science about the work of serving as expert witnesses.

Illustration by Rafaël Rozendaal (2019). Kunsthal Rotterdam. Photo by Rob Oo, Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution