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Margot Kaminski

Summary

Margot Kaminski is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons, a scholar of AI law, data privacy, and the First Amendment who is co-authoring a leading AI-law casebook.

Verified Facts

  • The Berkman Klein Center identifies Kaminski as Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons.1
  • Her work focuses on the law of new technologies, especially information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression; recently AI law, data privacy, and the First Amendment.1
  • She is co-authoring an AI-law casebook with Paul Ohm and Andrew Selbst.12
  • The authors' casebook site states that Artificial Intelligence Law will appear in Foundation Press's University Casebook Series and originated in Ohm's Fall 2023 Georgetown AI & Law course.2
  • In 2018 she held a Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant on comparative data privacy; in 2024 she researched comparative AI law at the European University Institute as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and Fulbright-Schuman grantee.1
  • She previously served as Executive Director of Yale Law School's Information Society Project and is a co-founder of Yale's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic.1

Expert Testimony and Public Advocacy

Kaminski is a doctrinal AI-law scholar rather than a lab-safety engineer. She is useful when the Hugging Face incident is translated into legal categories: automated systems, platform duties, comparative EU AI Act research, and speech/privacy collisions. The forthcoming casebook with Ohm and Selbst is designed for lecture-style AI-law courses grounded in cases, statutes, and rules.

Relevance to Lawsuits Involving Software and Internet Infrastructure

Kaminski is particularly useful when a matter involves:

  • Mapping frontier-AI incidents onto existing U.S. and EU legal frameworks
  • Privacy, First Amendment, and automated-decision rules
  • Comparative AI regulation (EU AI Act research)

She is a professor, not a default trial-counsel referral. Pair with Paul Ohm on computer crime and with EVENT-OPENAI-HUGGING-FACE-2026 for the facts of the 2026 intrusion.

Relationships

Sources

  1. SRC-KAMINSKI-BERKMAN: Margot Kaminski — Berkman Klein Center profile.
  2. SRC-AILA-CASEBOOK: Artificial Intelligence Law casebook site.

Research Debt

  • Add a live University of Colorado Law faculty URL as home-institution confirmation.
  • Source Colorado AI Act Task Force service from a primary state document if that role is to be stated.
  • Locate any Kaminski commentary on the Hugging Face incident.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-09-10

  1. SRC-KAMINSKI-BERKMAN — Berkman Klein Center profile (updated August 22, 2025). ↩↩↩↩↩

  2. SRC-AILA-CASEBOOK — Author-published casebook site. ↩↩