Jennifer Daskal, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a professor and faculty director of the Technology, Law & Security program at American University Washington College of Law. Daskal has written several award-winning articles about the challenges to rights and security posed by the digital revolution. Her current book project, The Right Way to Track and Censor, squarely confronts the multiplicity of harms being perpetuated online, the risks of quick fixes, and the need for affirmative, and rights-respecting, means of addressing them. Formerly, Daskal was counsel to the assistant attorney general at the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, and before that senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Slate, as well as many top-rated legal journals.
Selected Work
- Speech Across Borders: An analysis of the ways courts, companies, and governments are seeking to manage conflicting speech norms across borders.
- This ‘Fake News’ Law Threatens Free Speech. But it Doesn’t Stop There: A window into the intersecting assault on both speech and privacy posed by Singapore’s fake news law.
- Facebook’s ban on foreign political ads means the site is segregating speech: A critique of Facebook’s policies that effectively shut out foreign speech.
- Internet Censorship Could Happen More Than One Way: An analysis of the ways in which the European Court of Justice's ruling, while on its face a victory for free speech, actually paves the way for its unraveling.