Join us
for the January 27th Zoom Event of the
Brown Alumni Club of the Triangle
The growth of gigantic internet platforms and their dominant economic and political power should be ringing alarm bells, especially as so much of life has moved online during the pandemic. Please join us for a guest lecture by local alum Professor Barak Richman '92: "How to Save Democracy from Technology: Ending Big Tech's Information Monopoly."
Barak Richman (Brown ’92; AB, Urban Studies) is the Katharine T. Bartlett Professor of Law and Business Administration at Duke University. His primary research areas focus on health policy and antitrust law. During 2019-2020, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, where he co-authored the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s whitepaper on Platform Scale that developed policies to end Big Tech’s information monopoly.
Professor Richman won Duke Law School's Blueprint Award in 2005 and was named Teacher of the Year in 2010. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Laureate in Economics Oliver Williamson. He served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and from 1994-1996 he handled international trade legislation as a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, then chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Professor Richman will be speaking about the whitepaper he wrote at Stanford. A shorter version was published in Foreign Affairs and a preview is available at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-24/fukuyama-how-save-democracy-technology
Professor Richman's talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Admission is free, but if you wish, you may make an optional donation to our partner charity, the Exchange Family Center. When registering, just add the donation amount as your admission fee, and the Club will match it! Also, follow us on Facebook!
We will provide Club and University updates, and look forward to seeing you. (And don't forget the chance to win a dinner out on the town and other surprises!)