On April 21, Vivek Krishnamurthy (HBA ’02 Innis) delivers the annual Innis Alumni Lecture,
“Can You Say That on the Internet? The Law and Politics of Online Content Moderation.”
The Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law and director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa, Vivek is a leading legal expert on human rights and emerging technologies.
Philip Dawson 
(pictured right), AI policy lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, will moderate the discussion that follows.
Vivek Krishnamurthy is the Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he is also director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.
Vivek’s teaching, scholarship, and clinical legal practice focus on the complex regulatory and human rights-related challenges that arise in cyberspace. He advises governments, activists, and companies on the human rights impacts of new technologies and is a frequent public commentator on emerging technology and public policy issues.
Vivek was previously the assistant director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and counsel in the Corporate Social Responsibility Practice at Foley Hoag LLP. He is a graduate of Innis College at the University of Toronto, Yale Law School, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Vivek is currently a Fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a senior associate of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.
