Ignacio Cofone

Research

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Liability & data harms
Forthcoming
Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law
California Law Review Online.
Forthcoming
Standing
in Felix Bieker & Gloria Gonzalez Fuster (eds.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Privacy and Data Protection Law (Edward Elgar).
2026
The Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty
10 Georgetown Law Technology Review 1 · GLTR · SSRN
2025
The Overstated Cost of AI Fairness in Criminal Justice
100 Indiana Law Journal 1431 (with Warut Khern-am-nuai) · ILJ · SSRN
2023
Certifying Privacy Class Actions
37 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 1149 · JOLT · SSRN
2022
Privacy Standing
University of Illinois Law Review 1367 · UILR · SSRN
Jotwell review.
2021
Beyond Data Ownership
43 Cardozo Law Review 501 · CLR · SSRN
Council of Europe Stefano Rodotà Award (special mention).
2021
AI in Judicial Decision-making
102 Supreme Court Law Review 21 · SSRN · SCLR · book
Also published in AI & the Law in Canada (Florian Martin-Bariteau & Teresa Scassa eds., 2021).
2020
Nothing to Hide, but Something to Lose
70.1 University of Toronto Law Journal 64 · UTLJ · SSRN (preprint)
2020
Cy Pres Settlements in Privacy Class Actions
in Class Actions in Privacy Law (Ignacio N. Cofone ed.) (with Thomas Kadri) · Routledge · SSRN (preprint)
Translation: Acuerdos Cy Pres en acciones de clase de privacidad, 2.1 Revista Jurídica Austral 33 (2021).
2019
Algorithmic Discrimination is an Information Problem
70 Hastings Law Journal 1389 · HLJ · SSRN
2019
Antidiscriminatory Privacy
72 SMU Law Review 139 · SMU · SSRN
Future of Privacy Forum Best Privacy Papers for Policymakers; Yale Law School Burton H. Brody Prize.
2018
Privacy Harms
69 Hastings Law Journal 1039 (with Adriana Robertson) · HLJ · SSRN
AI & Tech Regulation
Forthcoming
Institutional Accountability and Traceable Reasoning in Algorithmic Adjudication: Beyond Trustworthy AI
Cambridge Forum on AI Law and Governance · SSRN
Forthcoming
Consent, Design, and Deceit: A Bottom-up Proposal for Regulating Dark Patterns
University of Toronto Law Journal (with Henry Coomes) · SSRN
2026
Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem
15.2 NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law 1 (with Katherine Strandburg) · NYUJIPL · SSRN
2025
Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
110 Iowa Law Review Online 217 (with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes) · ILR · SSRN
2025
Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada
in Philipp Hacker et al (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI (Oxford University Press) · OUP
2025
Privacy
in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., Springer, 3rd ed.) · Springer (3rd ed.) · SSRN (preprint)
1st ed., 2018; 2nd ed., 2021.
2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy
in Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (Oxford University Press) (with Alessia Zornetta) · OUP
2022
Ethical Surveillance in Vaccine Passports
45 Fordham International Law Journal 621 · FILJ · SSRN
2021
Immunity Passports and Contact Tracing Surveillance
24 Stanford Technology Law Review 176 · STLR · SSRN
2020
The Right to be Forgotten in Peace Processes
in The Right to be Forgotten: A Canadian & Comparative Perspective (Ignacio N. Cofone ed.) (with Catalina Turriago) · Routledge · SSRN (preprint)
2019
Strategic Games and Algorithmic Secrecy
64.4 McGill Law Journal 623 (with Katherine Strandburg) · MLJ · SSRN (preprint)
2018
Servers and Waiters: What Matters in the Law of A.I.
21 Stanford Technology Law Review 167 · STLR · SSRN
Regulatory Review review.
2018
Consumer Privacy in a Behavioral World
69 Hastings Law Journal 1471 (with Adriana Robertson) · HLJ · SSRN
2017
The Dynamic Effect of Information Privacy Law
18 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 517 · MJLST · SSRN
2017
A Healthy Amount of Privacy: Quantifying Privacy Concerns in Medicine
65 Cleveland State Law Review 1 · CSLR · SSRN
2016
The Way the Cookie Crumbles: Online Tracking meets Behavioral Economics
25.1 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 38 · IJLIT · SSRN (preprint)
2015
Google v. Spain: a Right to be Forgotten?
15 Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 · CK · SSRN
Other Work
2022
How to Choose a Law Review: An Empirical Study
71 Journal of Legal Education 311 (with Pierre-Jean Malé) · JLE · SSRN
2018
Commitment or Paternalism? The Case of Unamendability
in An Unamendable Constitution? Unamendability in Constitutional Democracies (Richard Albert ed.) (with Stephan Michel) · Springer
2017
Majority Rules in Constitutional Referendums
70.3 Kyklos 402 (with Stephan Michel) · Kyklos · SSRN (preprint)
2015
The Limits of Probabilistic Causality in Law
15.1 Global Jurist 29 · GJ · SSRN
Translation: Los límites de la causalidad probabilística en derecho, 2.2 Revista Jurídica Austral 515 (2021).
2015
El sistema de incentivos en los contratos de adhesión
29 Revista de Derecho Privado 101 · RDP · SSRN