It’s true. Donald Trump is now president. What does this mean for immigrant communities, regardless of their legal status? Our guest for Episode 10 of Ars Technica Live is Ahmed Ghappour, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings.
He’ll be discussing if we may see a redux of the FBI vs. Apple controversy and how this may affect people in sanctuary cities like Oakland.
Ghappour’s research bridges computer science and the law to address the contemporary challenges wrought by new technologies in the institutional design and administration of criminal justice and national security, with a focus on the emerging field of cybersecurity. His most recent publication is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.
Filmed before a live audience in tiki bar Longitude (347 14th St., Oakland, CA), each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.
Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can’t make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.
Before coming to UC Hastings, Ahmed Ghappour was at the University of Texas School of Law, where he co-taught the National Security Clinic, and the the Civil Rights Clinic. Prior to that, Prof. Ghappour was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings. He began his legal career as a patent litigator at Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP. Formerly, Ghappour was a computer engineer focused on design automation, diagnostics, distributed systems architecture and high performance computing.
Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.
Cyrus [suh-ROOS] Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere—about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea—was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011.
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