• Jenny Chan (China Research and Development Network, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) will discuss Independent Contractors in China’s Last-Mile Delivery (Buy with 1-Click)

• Christina Jayne Colclough (Why Not Lab) will discuss Why Workers Need Much Stronger Collective Data Rights (In Defense of the Right to be Human)

• Dragana Kaurin (Localization Lab) will discuss the Use of Geospatial Data in Workplace Immigration Raids (Tracking People and Movement)

• Ariana Levinson (University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law) will discuss Workers’ Rights, Legislation, and Creative Litigation

• Richard P. Appelbaum (University of California, Santa Barbara) will co-moderate the webinar

• William A. Herbert (Hunter College City University of New York, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions) will co-moderate the webinar

The webinar is on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Starting at 11 am NY, 4 pm London, and 11 pm Beijing.

Publication by Ariana R. Levinson and Maria Macaluso on this topic in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law https://ssrn.com/abstract=3860276

Jenny Chan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jenny Chan is an assistant professor of sociology and a committee member of the China Research and Development Network, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the coauthor, with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, of Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers (Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, 2020). She also serves as a vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labour Movements (2018-2022). Her research, currently funded by the Early Career Scheme of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, focuses on labor, class, and the Chinese state in an era of oligopolistic globalization.

Christina J. Colclough The Why Not Lab

Christina J. Colclough a thought leader on the futures of work(ers) and the politics of digital technology, is a strong advocate for the workers’ voice. She has extensive global labour movement experience and was the author of the union movement’s first principles on Workers' Data Rights and the Ethics of AI. Christina created the Why Not Lab as a dedication to improving workers' digital rights. She is in the all-time Hall of Fame of the world’s most brilliant women in AI Ethics; a Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership on AI; an Advisory Board member of Carnegie Council’s AI and Equality Initiative; a member of the OECD One AI Expert Group; and the UN's Secretary General Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. She is currently affiliated with FAOS, the Employment Relations Research Center at Copenhagen University.

Dragana Kaurin Localization Lab

Dragana Kaurin is the 2013 founder and Executive Director of Localization Lab and has worked at the intersection of technology and human rights for over a decade; she believes that making civic tech truly available for everyone requires designing with end users, and not for them. Prior to entering the Human Rights Program at Columbia University, where she did research on civic tech and refugee rights, she worked in Crisis Information Management and Communication For Development (C4D) at the UN and UNICEF. She has also served as a program officer at the Open Technology Institute, and worked as a data analyst at Ushahidi. Her research focus at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is on data protection and digital rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and has presented this research at the 2019 Oxford Media Law & Policy Institute.

Ariana R. Levinson University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

Ariana R. Levinson is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on labor and employment law issues. She has authored a book chapter and seven law review articles about work law and technology and has presented on the subject numerous times, including in a media interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. She is also a fellow in the Rutgers School of Management & Labor Relations Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing and a member of Kentucky Equal Justice Center’s Workers’ Rights Task Force. Prior to entering academia Professor Levinson practiced union-side labor law, including serving as a fellow for the AFL-CIO’s Legal Department. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School.

Richard P. Appelbaum University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard P. Appelbaum is Professor at Fielding Graduate University’s School of Leadership Studies, and Research Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has served as faculty representative on the University of California President’s Committee on Trademark Licensing, where he helped to draft the UC’s code of conduct governing working conditions in factories that make apparel for brands and retailers that sell licensed items across the ten UC campuses. He chairs the Advisory Council of the Workers' Rights Consortium, a Washington-based NGO that oversees the implementation of similar codes of conduct for 181 colleges and universities. His more than a dozen books include Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Garment Industry, Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy, and Innovation in China: Challenging the Global Science and Technology System.

William A. Herbert Hunter College, City University of New York

William A. Herbert is a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York and Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Institute of Public Policy at Hunter College and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. His research and scholarship focus on labor law and history, collective bargaining, unionization, higher education, and workplace technologies. His published works over the past two decades include seven law review articles concerning new technologies and workplace law, and he is co-author with Jerome Dobson of a recent chapter titled “Geoprivacy, Convenience, and the Pursuit of Anonymity in Digital Cities” in Wenzhong Shu, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan and Anshu Zhang (eds.), Urban Informatics (Springer 2021).