Alan Rozenshtein

Alan Rozenshtein, law professor focused on AI governance, and Kevin Frazier, AI and law program director, discuss how AI is reshaping legal practice and policy. They touch on AI-assisted lawyering, threats to entry-level roles, AI-written contracts, Claude’s virtue-ethics constitution, outcome-oriented legislation, new rights like the Right to Compute and Right to Share, and limits on surveillance and governance.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies professor who analyzes tech and democracy. Alan Rozenshtein, law professor who focuses on national security law. Zack Beauchamp, Vox correspondent studying democratic resilience. They discuss U.S. military use of AI for targeting, legal fights over defense access to AI firms, AI-tested battlefields like Ukraine and Gaza, and global lessons for defending democracy.

Alan Rozenshtein, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former lawyer in the Justice Department's National Security Division, joins the discussion on TikTok's urgent battle against a possible U.S. ban. The conversation dives into the implications of the Supreme Court's upcoming arguments and the potential outcomes that could reshape the app's future. Rozenshtein also unpacks the complexities of free speech versus national security, while examining the intricate ties between politics and legal decisions surrounding the social media platform.

Kevin Frazier, a policy and national-security expert, and Alan Rozenshtein, a law professor specializing in national security and procurement law, unpack the Anthropic–Pentagon showdown. They probe the legal footing of the 2018 supply-chain law, debate procedural risks to Anthropic, and weigh politics, personality, and OpenAI’s competing Pentagon deal.

Alan Rozenshtein, prawnik z Uniwersytetu Minnesoty specjalizujący się w prawie bezpieczeństwa narodowego. Tomasz Darmoliński, ekspert od bezzałogowców i militarnego wykorzystania AI. Piotr Kaszuwara, korespondent z Kijowa relacjonujący wpływ technologii na wojnę. Rozmowa o sporu Anthropic z Pentagonem, autonomii dronów, dezinformacji generowanej przez AI i stosowaniu sztucznej inteligencji na polu walki.

On February 14, the Brookings Institution hosted an event on the upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh—two cases that could potentially reshape the internet. The Court is set to hear arguments in both cases next week, on February 21 and 22. Depending on how the justices rule, Gonzalez could result in substantial changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the bedrock legal protection on which the internet is built. For today’s podcast, we’re bringing you audio of that discussion. Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic moderated a panel that included Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a joint appointment in electrical engineering & computer sciences and the School of Information; Daphne Keller, the director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center; Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein; and Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next month will mark the five-year anniversary of the CLOUD Act, a foundational piece of legislation on cross-border data transfers and criminal investigations. Before he was a University of Minnesota law professor and senior editor at Lawfare, Alan Rozenshtein worked in the Department of Justice where he was a member of the team that developed the CLOUD Act. In that capacity, he interacted with representatives from the large tech companies that would be most directly affected by the law. One of these people was Matt Perault, then the head of Global Policy Development at Facebook, and now the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt joined Alan to discuss the CLOUD Act with two more people who were present at its creation: Greg Nojeim, senior counsel and director of the Security and Surveillance Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Aaron Cooper, a partner at the law firm of Jenner & Block, who was at the time a colleague of Alan’s at the Department of Justice. They talked about the reasons for the CLOUD Act’s development, whether it has succeeded in its goals, and what we should expect to see in the next five years.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Columbus, a legal reporter tracking DOJ tactics; Molly Roberts, a political and policy analyst; and Alan Rozenshtein, a constitutional law professor, dig into the national fallout from Border Patrol killings and shifting federal tactics. They then unpack Anthropic’s “constitution” for its AI model, debating persona-first design, governance choices, and what it means for AI behavior and status.

It’s Election Day in the United States—so while you wait for the results to come in, why not listen to a podcast about the other biggest story obsessing the political commentariat right now? We’re talking, of course, about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the billionaire’s dramatic and erratic changes to the platform. In response to Musk’s takeover, a great number of Twitter users have made the leap to Mastodon, a decentralized platform that offers a very different vision of what social media could look like. What exactly is decentralized social media, and how does it work? Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein has a paper on just that, and he sat down with Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic on the podcast to discuss for an episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem. They were also joined by Kate Klonick, associate professor of law at St. John’s University, to hash out the many, many questions about content moderation and the future of the internet sparked by Musk’s reign and the new popularity of Mastodon.Among the works mentioned in this episode:“Welcome to hell, Elon. You break it, you buy it,” by Nilay Patel on The Verge“Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve,” by Mike Masnick on TechdirtSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The FBI on Monday conducted a surprise search of Donald Trump's home and resort at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The investigation appeared to involve the retention of classified information by the former president after he left the White House. There's not a whole lot of information, but Trump did confirm the search.To go through it all, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Twitter Spaces with Lawfare senior editors Alan Rozenshtein and Quinta Jurecic, and Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor for Bob Mueller. They talked about what we know and what we don't know, what sort of investigation this might be, where it may be going, and whether this has anything to do with Jan. 6.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.