Gilad Abiri

Associate Professor of Law


Email: giladabiri@gmail.com

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COURSES TAUGHT

  • Constitutional Law
  • Data Privacy
  • Law in the Information Society
  • AI and the Law

EDUCATION

  • L.L.M. and J.S.D., Yale Law School

  • L.L.M. Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law


BIO

Gilad Abiri is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation at Peking University School of Transnational Law, an Affiliated Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and a Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University's Digital Law Centre. His research examines the intersection of law and technology, with particular focus on AI regulation, platform governance, and the legitimacy of digital information systems. His recent scholarship on artificial intelligence and digital platforms has appeared in leading journals including the Georgia Law Review, BYU Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, Stanford Technology Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Michigan Technology Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

Prior to his current appointments, Abiri served as a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he co-taught Modern Constitutional Theory and earned his J.S.D. (2020) and LL.M. (2016). He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International Studies as the Joseph C. Fox Fellow and at NYU Law School's Center for Law and Philosophy as a Global Postdoctoral Fellow. During his doctoral studies, he held positions as a Schell Human Rights Fellow and a Junior Fellow at Yale's Initiative for Religion, Politics, and Society. Abiri also holds an LL.M. summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and is a graduate of Tel Aviv University's Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, where he pursued an integrated curriculum in law, political science, and philosophy.


Publications
  • Abiri, Gilad. “From a Network to a Dilemma: The Legitimacy of Social Media”. Stanford Technology Law Review. (Co-authored with Sebastian Guidi, forthcoming)

  • Abiri, Gilad. “The People`s (Republic) Algorithms”. Notre Dame Journal of Comparative and International Law, 2022, Co-authored with Xinyu Huang)

  • Abiri, Gilad. “Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide”. Mich. Tech. L. Rev. 2022

  • Abiri, Gilad. “Moderating from Nowhere”. BYU L. Rev. 2022

  • Abiri, Gilad. "The Pandemic Constitution", Colum. J. Transnat’l L. (2021)(Co-authored with Sebastian Guidi)

  • Abiri, Gilad. "The Distinctiveness of Religion as a Jeffersonian Compromise", Penn St. L. Rev. (2020)

  • Abiri, Gilad. "Divisiveness, Political Identities and the Establishment Clause", Pace L. Rev. 396 (2020)

  • Abiri, Gilad. "The Freedom of Religious Nationalism", Asian Journal of Law and Society (2021)

  • Abiri, Gilad. "The Role of Authority and Sanctity in State–Religion Conflicts", in REGULATING RELIGION IN ASIA: NORMS, MODES, AND CHALLENGES 59–78 (Jaclyn L. Neo, Arif A. Jamal, & Daniel P. S. Goh eds., 2019).


Presentations
  • Taught a two week Summer seminar sponsored by the STUDIENSTIFUNG, Germany`s most prestigious scholarship foundation, on the regulation of fake news.

  • The Legitimacy of Social Media,

     - ICON annual conference, Poland

     - ISP Ideas Lunch, Yale Law School, USA

  • Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide, Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, 2022, Yale Law School, USA

  • 'Moderating from Nowhere', IACL Junior Scholars Forum, 2021


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