Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Chinmayi Sharma

Post image

“Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries” is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review! @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and I describe how the rise of a vendor-mediated enforcement apparatus disrupts immigration federalism and circumvents democratic accountability. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

2 weeks ago 9 3 1 1

Honored and excited to have joined @justinhendrix.bsky.social’s podcast for @techpolicypress.bsky.social to discuss my new paper with @samadler.bsky.social about the way the new privatized automated immigration apparatus threatens core rule of law values and sidelines the democratic process.

1 day ago 14 6 0 0

So excited that my article with @samadler.bsky.social will be published in the BYU Law Review! It takes apart the privatized, automated architecture of the new immigration enforcement regime and gives an unvarnished critique of how it erodes federalism, democratic oversight, and civil liberties.

2 weeks ago 5 3 0 0
Preview
The Business of Military AI The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could jeopar...

1/ As the US continues AI-enabled strikes on Iran, new @brennancenter.org research from @emileayoub.bsky.social and me examines how the military’s investments in the technology have been building to this moment.

Congress must step up and reckon with AI’s dangers to life, liberty, and democracy 🧵:

1 month ago 67 39 3 11

Incredibly thorough report about an incredibly important, and profoundly concerning, set of developments today.

1 month ago 0 0 0 0
The Enforcement Triangle: How Automation Rewired Immigration Governance <p><span>Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigrati

Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & student Sam Adler '26 JD (@samadler.bsky.social) explore private tech vendors & immigration federalism, in their new article published on @ssrn.bsky.social, "The Enforcement Triangle: How Automation Rewired Immigration Governance."
📝:

1 month ago 2 2 0 0
Post image

Given that "open-source" AI is about to become a lot more important going forward, here's something that may be of interest to AI law and policy folks (with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and @ptnobel.bsky.social ). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1 month ago 7 2 0 0
Preview
Inside the dangerous and shady business of data brokers Even if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.S. privacy laws, experts warn there are often minimal safeguards against motivated people exploiting them for ...

Excellent & empathetic reporting by @iododds.bsky.social in @the-independent.com about data brokers & interpersonal abuse, with smart quotes from @samadler.bsky.social & mentions of our forthcoming @califlrev.bsky.social article w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

1 month ago 4 3 1 0
Preview
Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Alleged Constitutional Violations The ACLU and partners sued over alleged racial profiling and unlawful arrests in Minnesota. Read sworn declarations and case details.

Proud to play a role in helping get this together for @justsecurity.org. It provides you with details from the sworn declarations filed in support of the ACLU's lawsuit in Minnesota, Hussen v. Noem. The details of abuses by federal agents across the 29 declarations we looked at are chilling.

2 months ago 281 165 4 6
Post image

Untangling #AI Openness: This article examines the complex debate over AI openness & highlights the need for policymakers to balance #innovation, access, safety, & national security.

Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

#LawSky #AICommunity

2 months ago 4 3 1 0
Advertisement
Professor Alan Rozenshtein

Professor Alan Rozenshtein

The debate over openness in artificial intelligence (AI) is the topic of a forthcoming article, “Unbundling AI Openness”, in the Wisconsin Law Review, co-authored by Minnesota Law professor @alanrozenshtein.com, with colleagues @ptnobel.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social.
z.umn.edu/awsx

4 months ago 4 2 0 0
Preview
At CAT Lab Summit on New York State Tech Policy, a Call for Listening - Citizens and Technology Lab For most of us, daily life depends on government data of one kind or another. Your payroll taxes (or unemployment check), the bus schedule, your property taxes or medical bills—all of these are genera...

At the Citizens and Technology Lab October 2025 Summit on New York State Technology Policy, Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) argued that the media plays a key role in “identifying emerging trends [in data] and broadcasting them in a digestible way for those affected.”

5 months ago 1 1 0 0
Preview
AI training becomes mandatory at more US law schools At orientation last month, 375 new Fordham Law students were handed two summaries of rapper Drake's defamation lawsuit against his rival Kendrick Lamar's record label — one written by a law professor, the other by ChatGPT.

Fordham Law students are gaining hands-on artificial intelligence training by learning how generative AI can mislead or oversimplify legal reasoning—an issue that Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) says "underscores the need for responsible AI use." via Reuters (@reuters.com)

6 months ago 2 1 0 0
SSRN logo; Scholarly Insights: Prof. Alan Rozenshtein; "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026)

SSRN logo; Scholarly Insights: Prof. Alan Rozenshtein; "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026)

@alanrozenshtein.com and co-authors @ptnobel.bsky.social (Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University) and Prof. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Fordham School of Law) have published an article on @ssrn.bsky.social, "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026).
z.umn.edu/AIOpeness

7 months ago 5 3 0 0
AI Procurement As Regulatory Reconnaissance Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is a black box technology in a black box industry. Some view AI as a lifechanging technology capable of advancing socie

Excited to share a draft of my Note—AI Procurement as Regulatory Reconnaissance—forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Inspired by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, I contend that federal procurement offers a compelling information-forcing tool to inform AI regulation.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

7 months ago 3 2 0 0
Unbundling AI Openness <div> The debate over AI openness—whether to make components of an artificial intelligence system available for public inspection and modification—forces polic

Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

7 months ago 5 3 0 1

Excited to share a @lawfaremedia.org piece with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social that builds off our article Brokering Safety, forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social, that calls for an overdue conversation about how much we privilege data broker profits over human safety.

8 months ago 39 13 1 0
Post image

I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

9 months ago 203 58 15 9
Advertisement
Bailing Out Biometrics In 2023, hackers breached 23andMe and extracted the biometric and genealogical data of nearly seven million people. By 2025, that data-originally offered up in

23andMe didn’t own your DNA—it was bailed to them. In Bailing Out Biometrics (forthcoming, J. Tort Law), Elijah Gordon & I argue that biometric data deserves bailment protection. Allowing its breach and then selling it in bankruptcy, isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

9 months ago 1 1 0 0
Preview
Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? As always, the Blog has you covered with our biannual roundup of some of our favorite…

With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship?

Today, the Blog highlights some of the hottest new forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. 🔥🔥

10 months ago 38 20 1 7
A panel of five individuals of different races and genders at a table

A panel of five individuals of different races and genders at a table

A woman with blond hair sitting at a table  amid speech

A woman with blond hair sitting at a table amid speech

Enjoying a fascinating discussion on the role of technology in backsliding democracy @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social ft. @orlylobel.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social Aziz Huq, James Grimmelmann, Quinta Jurecic & others! Organized by @oliviersylvain.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social 🔥

11 months ago 9 4 0 1
2:26
Thomas Kadri (External)
That l've co-authored with Chinmay Sharma.
Thomas Kadri (External)
And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers

2:26 Thomas Kadri (External) That l've co-authored with Chinmay Sharma. Thomas Kadri (External) And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers

Thank you @thomaskadri.bsky.social for pairing scholarship with action. Drawing on our article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Brokering Safety), Thomas testified in support of MA’s Location Shield Act and emphasized its importance in mitigating abuse survivors’ privacy self-management burden.

1 year ago 5 2 0 0
Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

1 year ago 34463 9268 925 566

Your con law article about it was a thing of beauty.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
AI's Hippocratic Oath Diagnosing diseases, creating artwork, offering companionship, analyzing data, and securing our infrastructure—artificial intelligence (AI) does it all. But it

My Article, “AI’s Hippocratic Oath,” has just been published by the Wash. U. L. Rev. It argues that AI engineers should be subject to the same level of responsibility we expect of any other profession.

It’s time we demand that AI’s architects do no harm.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Sharma, Kadri, & Adler on Data Brokers and Safety for Abuse Victims, buff.ly/E4hgZG3 - Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham Law), Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia School of Law), & Sam Adler (Fordham Law) have posted Brokering Safety (114 Calif. L. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

1 year ago 4 3 0 1
Preview
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

1 year ago 91771 23473 1636 2075
Preview
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

1 year ago 236 78 6 3
Advertisement
Post image

“Brokering Safety” is forthcoming in Calif. L. Rev.! With @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social, we expose privacy law's complicity in how data brokers worsen stalking & IPV, then pitch a system for victims to obscure data across all brokers in one go. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1 year ago 9 4 1 0
Brokering Safety For victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, a

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social, "Brokering Safety," is forthcoming in the California Law Review! It proposes a system that would enable victims to obscure their info across all data brokers with a single request.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1 year ago 9 2 0 0