My research examines how law structures visibility, speech, and value in the information economy.
My scholarship develops across three overlapping research streams.
- First, I study how law shapes economic interests and visibility in the digital spectrum. This stream includes three projects at various stages of publication. A New Right of Publicity argues for reconceptualising publicity rights within platform policy and its mechanics. The Politics of Postmortem Privacy explores the tensions surrounding the legal recognition of privacy after death, revealing conflicts between collective memory and individual interests, between the American and European approaches, and between inheritance law vs data protection law. The Materialities of the Digital challenges law’s assumptions of digital immateriality by foregrounding data centres, hidden labour, and smart devices.
- Second, my work interrogates how law constructs speech and speakers within algorithmic environments. In The Mutations of Digital Speech, I examine how legal doctrine assigns distinct statuses to algorithmic outputs, from search rankings to content moderation and generative systems. Machine Speech and Epistemic Authority offers a normative account of how authority and credibility are attributed to algorithmic outputs. The Laws of Artificial Companionship analyses emerging forms of human-chatbot interaction and critiques the regulatory gaps surrounding conversational advertising.
- Third, I analyse how law reconfigures labour and creativity in the information economy. In The Hidden Brussels Effect (with J. L. Gallegos), I trace the unintended regulatory consequences of EU legislative agenda for content moderators in the Global South. Algorithmic Entrenchment in the Creative Economy revisits debates over AI authorship and calls for a deeper analysis on how algorithmic systems are embedded within creative workflows and cultural production.
Together, these streams overlap and inform one another, forming the arc of my scholarship. My work is grounded in dialogue with computer science, STS, and political economy, which collectively shape my approach to law in the digital age.
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