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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

9:30 am – 4:30 pm CDT


Agenda:

Insights from Recent Cases Including the New Mexico v. Meta Case
Presented by Mehtab Khan

  • Overview of the factual background and allegations as publicly reported
  • Examination of the legal claims and theories asserted by the plaintiff
  • Overview of defenses and legal arguments raised by the defendant
  • Key legal issues and considerations highlighted by the case to date
  • Procedural posture and potential implications for future social media litigation

Section 230
Presented by Eric Goldman

  • An overview of the Section 230 defense
  • Review of the statutory and common law exclusions to Section 230
  • How Section 230 interacts with the First Amendment
  • Section 230’s role in the social media addiction litigation
  • The future of Section 230

From the Haugen Files to the Tort Theories in K.G.M. v. Meta and YouTube
Presented by Hannibal Travis

  • A declining space for pre-trial motions in California and the Ninth Circuit?
  • Trial testimony and cross-examination in K.G.M.
  • Expert theories and post-trial gatekeeping as to liability and damages
  • Implications for AI on social media, and off, and messaging/chat surveillance

First Amendment Implications and Issues
Presented by Matthew Lawrence

  • Determining whether regulated conduct is expressive
  • Content-based and content-neutral design regulations
  • State interests in regulating 
  • Tailoring and comparing burdens 
  • AI and listeners’ rights

Gender-Based Harm, Youth Safety, and Social Media Liability: Ethical and Bias Considerations in the K.G.M. v. Meta Case
Presented by Anita Bernstein

  • Gendered harms … and not only to girls
  • The ethics of using young plaintiffs in MDL bellwether trials
  • Liability insurers’ obligation to defend Meta
  • Are punitive damages justified?

 

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Credits

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6.0 CLE Hours* (up to 7.0)

 

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This course is open and is designed to qualify for 6.0-7.0 CLE hours for attorneys in some states. Attorney licensure is not required to participate in this course.

*HalfMoon Education is an approved Multiple Activity Provider with the State Bar of California (No. 8370); this program offers 6.0 CLE hours to California attorneys. 

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Speakers

Anita Bernstein

Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, in Brooklyn, NY

Professor Bernstein is a nationally recognized authority on tort law and feminist jurisprudence, as well as professional responsibility, products liability, and family law. Her awards include the first Fulbright scholarship in European Union affairs given to a law professor. As a member of the American Law Institute, she has served as an adviser on two torts Restatements, the recently completed one on intentional torts and the in-progress Restatement covering remedies. In 2020 she received from the AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems the top honor in her academic field, the William L. Prosser Award.

Her writings have appeared in dozens of law reviews, including the principal ones of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, California, Michigan, Cornell, Duke, Texas, and Vanderbilt. She is the author of two books about the law of human reproductive anatomy, The Common Law Inside the Female Body (Cambridge University Press 2019) and Making the Best of Semen (forthcoming, NYU Press). Her other books address torts, products liability, and the law of marriage. Professor Bernstein’s scholarship has been cited in decisional law by federal courts (both trial and appellate) and the supreme courts of Pennsylvania and Texas. She has also authored a series on legal malpractice in the New York Law Journal.

Prior to joining Brooklyn Law School, Professor Bernstein was the Sam Nunn Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School, and Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also served as a visiting professor at Michigan Law School, Cornell Law School, and the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was the Mason Ladd Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Before her academic career, she practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton and was a law clerk to Judge Jack Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Eric Goldman

Associate Dean at Santa Clara University School of Law, in Santa Clara, CA

Professor Goldman is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the school’s Datta Center for High Tech Law (DCHTL) and co-supervises the school’s Privacy Law Certificate. Before joining the SCU faculty in 2006, Professor Goldman was an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School, General Counsel of Epinions.com, and an Internet transactional attorney at Cooley Godward LLP.

Professor Goldman teaches and publishes in the areas of Internet Law, Intellectual Property and Advertising & Marketing Law. He blogs on these topics at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog, which has been inducted into the ABA Journal’s “Blawg Hall of Fame.” The California State Bar’s IP Section has named him an “IP Vanguard,” and Managing IP magazine twice named him to a shortlist of “IP Thought Leaders” in North America. In 2019, he received Santa Clara University’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, the university’s highest award for scholarly achievement. In 2023, he received Santa Clara University’s Brutocao Family Foundation Award for Curriculum Innovation for his work on the school’s Privacy Law and Tech Edge JD certificates.

Professor Goldman received his BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Economics/Business from University of California, Los Angeles in 1988. He received his JD from UCLA in 1994, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review, and concurrently received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Mehtab Khan

Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, OH

Professor Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where she teaches Intellectual Property, AI Law, and other tech-related subjects. Professor Khan is an expert on copyright law, platform governance, and artificial intelligence. Her recent academic scholarship includes articles on developing an accountability framework for large-scale AI training datasets, regulating automated content moderation and online speech tools, and the impact of AI on the creative industries.

Professor Khan was previously a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University. Her research at BKC examined ways of governing the practices involved in developing and deploying AI technologies. She is particularly interested in ensuring diversity and representation in the development process. She has also held positions at Yale Law School, serving as a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project and as the Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. Additionally, she has been a visiting researcher at Stanford HAI. She is a recipient of numerous grants to work on the use of AI in hiring. In 2019, she was a Fellow at the Center for Technology, Society and Policy and a Research Grantee at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

Her doctoral dissertation, completed at Berkeley Law, examines the role of internet platforms in shaping fair use. This research was partly inspired by the challenges internet users face in accessing knowledge and the ways platforms like Google and Wikipedia navigate complex copyright rules to make knowledge more accessible.

Professor Khan is a licensed attorney and has previously worked as a lawyer in the United States, Malaysia, and Pakistan. She has held positions at the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—three Bay Area institutions that have been at the forefront of many legal battles around digital rights. She holds an LLM and JSD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Matthew Lawrence

Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law at Emory University, in Atlanta, GA

Professor Lawrence is professor of law and associate dean of faculty at Emory University School of Law. He is a leading scholar of health law, administrative law, and the regulation of addiction. His work spans these fields by exploring how the framework rules that govern public institutions—including appropriations law, administrative law, and constitutional law—influence health outcomes in the real world, often invisibly and at scale.

Professor Lawrence was named one of the top 100 legal scholars of 2025 in Willey and Knapp’s citation-based ranking, is currently serving as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and is a coauthor of The Law of American Health Care, a health law textbook centering federal statutory and regulatory law. His scholarship appears in top law journals including placements at the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, New York University Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His scholarship also appears in leading peer reviewed medical journals including the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (JLME), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Public Health Reports, and Science.

Professor Lawrence has extensive, bipartisan federal experience. This includes service at DOJ during the Obama Administration, OMB during the first Trump Administration, and DEA during the Biden Administration, as well as work at the United States House of Representatives Budget Committee. He draws from this experience to inform his scholarship, teaching, and frequent media appearances. In 2023, Professor Lawrence was awarded the Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education. His media appearances include Bloomberg, Kaiser Health News, Nature, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Hannibal Travis

Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, FL

Professor Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. He joined FIU after several years practicing intellectual property and Internet law at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has also served as the Irving Cypen Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Florida, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant in philosophy classes taught at Harvard College and UC Berkeley. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. at the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California.

Professor Travis is the author of Platform Neutrality Rights: AI Censors and the Future of Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming 2024), and Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the editor of Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy (with Peter Mezei and Anett Pogácsás, Brill forthcoming 2024) and Cyberspace Law: Censorship and Regulation of the Internet (Routledge, 2013). He has also published works on copyright law, intellectual property remedies, patent reform, the freedom of expression, antitrust law, and net neutrality, including articles in the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, American University Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Miami Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Villanova Law Review, and Yale Journal of Law and Technology. He has contributed to symposia and edited volumes on the international and comparative law of copyright and performers’ rights, including a piece on software contracts and copyright that was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2010. An article of his on intellectual property remedies was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2019. He co-directs the Intellectual Property Certificate Program.

Professor Travis has also published widely on genocide, cultural survival, and human rights. His work in this area has appeared in edited volumes from the University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Berghahn, and Bloomsbury; the international law journals of the Cornell, Washington University, and Brooklyn law schools; and specialty journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Quarterly, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (twice), and Genocide Studies International (three times). He is the editor of The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (Routledge, 2018), and the author of Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945 (Routledge, 2012) and Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). He has served as an editorial advisory board member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal and Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (the journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, continued via University of Toronto Press and the Zoryan Institute as Genocide Studies International), and on the book review panel of the Journal of Genocide Research. He has coached or co-coached FIU’s Jessup International Law Moot Court team, Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court team, BMI Copyright Law Moot Court team, and Cyber 9/12 team.

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