Elon Law Review

Congratulations to the new Board for Volume 19 of Elon Law Review!

Meet this year's keynote speaker! Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018) and has written the book The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has appeared in an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss early social network services and has written for many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and Washington Post. And he has appeared on news programs on BBC, CNN, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, and ABC. He is currently a regular columnist for The Guardian.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Lee Rainie is the director of Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, which studies the human impact of accelerating digital change.
Before that, he was director for 24 years of the Pew Research Center’s team that studied the internet and technology. At the Pew Internet Project, his team produced more than 850 reports about the social, political and economic impact of four technology revolutions: the internet/broadband revolution, the mobile connectivity revolution, the social media revolution, and the artificial intelligence revolution.
Lee is co-author of Networked: The New Social Operating System and five books about the future of the internet, based on Project surveys.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Jeff Horwitz is a former technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco, where he covered Meta and social-media platforms. He is the author of “Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets.”
His work on the Journal’s Facebook Files won a George Polk Award, a Gerald Loeb Award and the Chris Welles Memorial Prize.
Previously he was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Jeff has also worked for American Banker, Legal Times, the San Bernardino Sun and the Washington City Paper.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Kevin Frazier is the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law. He also co-hosts the Scaling Laws podcast and serves as a Senior Editor at Lawfare. His scholarship on AI, regulatory design, and innovation policy has appeared in leading law reviews, such as the Tennessee Law Review, and popular outlets, such as the MIT Tech Review. He additionally maintains a substack, Appleseed AI.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Justice John G. Browning has been a litigator in Texas and Oklahoma for the past 36 years, including as a partner in several national law firms. Prior to returning to private practice, he served as a justice on Texas's largest appellate court, the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas. Justice Browning is also the Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama. He also serves as Chair of the Institute for Law
and Technology at The Center for American and International Law. Justice Browning is the author of five law books, including the Social Media Litigation Practice Guide (West 2014), and (with Professor Jan Jacobowitz) Legal Ethics and Social Media: A Practitioner's Handbook (ABA 2017; 2nd edition 2022). He has also contributed chapters to at least 10 other books, and has authored nearly 70 law review articles as well as hundreds of other articles in legal journals. A nationally recognized thought leader on technology and the law, Justice Browning has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TIME magazine, USA Today, the ABA Journal, Law.com, Law 360, Business Insider, Bloomberg Law, WIRED and many other publications.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! J. Israel Balderas is an Emmy® Award-winning news professional, journalism educator, and First Amendment attorney whose career spans decades of investigative reporting, documentary production, and transformative academic leadership. As an assistant professor of journalism at Elon University, he brings his multifaceted experience to courses in Media Law and Ethics, TV reporting, and innovative programs bridging political communication with civic engagement.
Before transitioning to academia, Balderas built his reputation through fearless reporting and anchoring at major local TV stations across Florida, North Carolina, and Texas, earning multiple industry accolades including an Emmy® for Best Continuing Coverage and recognition from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas as best TV news anchor. His experience also includes work as a producer for FOX News Channel, where he contributed to flagship programs like Special Report with Brit Hume and FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Lauren Gailey is an Assistant Professor of Law at Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, where she earned her J.D. summa cm laude. Gailey has a successful career as an appellate lawyer, first at Jones Day Pittsburgh (2013–16) and then in Winston & Strawn’s Washington, DC office (2018–25). A career highlight was briefing and second-chairing oral argument in a case before the United States Supreme Court (resulting in a 9–0 victory). Gailey served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Hardiman (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit),
now-Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), and Judge David Campbell (U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona), as well as the federal Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Dr. Evan Ringel is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Law in the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University. Dr. Ringel has co-authored several prominent publications in the field of constitutional law and technology including “First Amendment Limits on State Laws Targeting Election Misinformation” and “Regulating Facial Recognition Technology and First Amendment Challenges.”

Learn about the speakers coming to Elon Law Review’s symposium! Amanda Martin joined the faculty of Duke Law School after nearly 30 years in a private practice focused on issues related to libel and privacy, the internet, intellectual property, and other speech-based concerns. Ms. Martin served as general counsel to the N.C. Press Association, an organization of approximately 150 N.C. newspapers, and she routinely counseled reporters, editors, and news directors about avoiding libel suits, gaining access to closed government
meetings and records, and resisting subpoenas.
As the Supervising Attorney in the Duke Law First Amendment Clinic, Ms. Martin teaches students how to represent and advocate for both local news media and individuals who have First Amendment concerns but cannot afford an attorney. Ms. Martin is the co-author of the North Carolina chapter of the Media Law Resource Center’s North Carolina Libel Survey, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Open Government Guide, and is co-editor of the North Carolina Media Law Handbook, to which she also contributes as an author.

This Friday Elon Law Review is hosting its symposium "Breaking News: First Amendment on Trial." Stay tuned for announcements this week introducing our speakers!

Elon Law Review is so excited to introduce the new Volume 18 editorial staff! Congratulations, we are so excited to work with you!