Race, Law, and Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Program Welcome & Opening Remarks Renee Nicole Allen, Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Race and Law, St. John’s School of Law Jelani Jefferson Exum, Dean & Rose DiMartino and Karen Sue Smith Professor of Law, St. John’s School of Law Keynote Speaker Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies; Founding Director, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, Princeton University Panels Panel I: AI & Racialized Harms Panelists: Diego H. Alcalá Laboy, Assistant Professor, Albany Law School, Presentation: “The ‘Founder’s Gaze’: How the Fourth Amendment is a Surveillance Technology That Enables AI to Scale Control Over the Subaltern” Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Presentation: “The Legal Syllogism as Racial Algorithm: Bias, Generative AI, and the Objectivity Trap in Legal Writing” Panel II: AI & Racialized Surveillance and Predictions Panelists: Raquel Coterillo Laso, Affiliate Scholar, Georgetown University, Presentation: “From The Myth Of Technological Progress To The Reality Of Inequality And Algorithmic Surveillance” Christian Powell Sundquist, Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Presentation: “Surveil and Suppress: The Role of AI in Racializing the Right to Protest” Panel III: AI & Racial Identity Panelists: Costanza Nardocci, Professor in Constitutional Law, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan, Presentation: “Minorities and Minority Rights in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” Shatrunjay Bose, PG Researcher, University of Southampton, Presentation: “Artificial Intelligence and Insurance Contracts: Rethinking the Duty of Disclosure for Enabling Transparency”