Georgetown Law
Technology Review

Richard Susskind has famously argued that “court is a service, not a place.” We agree, and due to the most unimaginably horrible circumstance of the ongoing pandemic, courts have indeed largely stopped being physical places where people go. Courthouses closed, trials were delayed, and some courts even paused the filing of cases. Courts began to […]

To date, civil justice tech innovations in the United States have primarily focused on addressing two essential needs for access to justice: (1) expanding access to legal information, services and court systems for individuals seeking help, often without an attorney, and (2) facilitating discrete legal transactions like completing a legal form, filing a document in […]

JustFix is a non-profit organization that helps create technology to aid in the New York City (NYC) housing justice movement. For the last five years, JustFix has worked with tenants and housing advocates to co-design data driven tools to fight harassment and displacement in the NYC housing market. These tools range from information disseminating phone […]

The U.S. government has waged “tech wars” against companies under the banner of national security. But is consumer welfare being sacrificed to win these wars? This Article offers an in-depth study of the emerging conflict between two public interests—consumer welfare and national security—in the context of antitrust law. It considers the ramifications of the patent […]

Suggesting that it is possible to determine a person’s interior characteristics or future social outcomes based on their facial expressions, body movements, and other characteristics is not backed by scientific consensus. Technologies that aim to do so often reflect discredited and racist pseudoscientific practices, including physiognomy, phrenology, and other forms of race science. These practices […]

The disparate allocation of education resources along racial and class lines is a disturbing part of the United States’ history—and its present. A 2019 study found that predominantly nonwhite school districts receive $23 billion less than predominantly white districts, even though they serve the same number of children. Other studies have found that schools with […]

Telehealth is the remote delivery of health care to a patient through technology. While this concept may seem simple, it encompasses many categories of services, including remote doctor’s visits and patient counseling, the electronic transmission of treatment information, remote patient monitoring, and mobile applications designed to assist patients in their treatment. Telemedicine also includes healthcare […]

Introduction Nine out of ten Americans describe high-speed internet service as either essential or important. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, during which internet connections served as a primary means of connecting to a socially-distanced world, internet access was considered critical for individual, social, and economic advancement. More than fifteen years ago, President George W. Bush […]