Thomas Kadri

Thomas Kadri

@thomaskadri.bsky.social

Professor of Law & Senior Fellow at the University of Miami • Working on digital speech, sexuality, privacy & abuse • Legislative & Policy Director at the Clinic to End Tech Abuse at Cornell

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#MiamiLaw welcomes Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social, whose expertise spans law, technology, privacy, free speech, and digital abuse. His research examines emerging issues including #AI deepfakes, online harassment, and platform accountability. #TechLaw

news.miami.eduNew faculty member Thomas Kadri explores the legal challenges of the digital age Bringing global academic training and policy experience, Thomas Kadri joins the School of Law to teach Criminal Law and Torts while researching how law responds to evolving digital harms.

So delighted to have joined the University of Miami faculty! 💚🧡

University of Miami School of Law@miamilawschool.bsky.social

#MiamiLaw welcomes Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social, whose expertise spans law, technology, privacy, free speech, and digital abuse. His research examines emerging issues including #AI deepfakes, online harassment, and platform accountability. #TechLaw

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Each year, my Torts students create podcasts about the intersections of Tort law with social policy. Below are this past year's podcasts. Most of them are stunningly good and cover important topics like AI, wildfires, medmal, and deepfakes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comTort ReportsHere, you will find the Tort Reports—podcasts created by Prof. Daniel G. Aaron's Torts classes from 2023-2025. They cover an array of social issues that interse

Excited to present “Consent Creep,” my new piece with Brenda Dvoskin, at this conference in September! Registration is now open, with a Pride Month special offer. Join us! 🏳️‍🌈

UCL Faculty of Laws@laws.ucl.ac.uk

Pride Month: 25% off standard tickets to the Queering Private Law Conference 2026 🏳️‍🌈 How might queer theory transform our understanding of private law? Join scholars and practitioners from nine countries at UCL Laws' flagship conference. Use code MANYVOICES by 4 July shorturl.at/KskXj

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Brokering Safety is really good. I'm grateful that I could get a chance to engage it so closely. Thanks @thomaskadri.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social for writing it.

Thomas Kadri@thomaskadri.bsky.social

Then, in “The One-Stop-Shop Is One Step in the Right Direction,” @oliviersylvain.bsky.social contends that our “timely and useful” proposal “would align legal responsibility with economic power” and “be an important step in the right direction.” www.californialawreview.org/online/one-s...

A big thanks to @daniel-solove.bsky.social for featuring our article — and for generously taking the time to collect and share all this great new work!

Daniel Solove@daniel-solove.bsky.social

Works mentioned in danielsolove.substack.com/p/privacy-ai... include ones by @aliciasn.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social @paulschwartz.bsky.social @evanselinger.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @iajunwa.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social

These wonderful scholars have inspired my research and mentored me throughout my career, so it’s a special privilege to see them engage with my work. Their essays are generous and, most importantly, enhance and advance what we tried to do in our article by clarifying and critiquing our work 🙏

So honored by this generous @jotwell.bsky.social review from the wonderful Professor Aya Gruber! For anyone interested in reading our underlying article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comSafe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism<p>Lawmakers and technology companies are regulating online sexuality in the name of feminism. Whereas libertarian ideals dominated early debates about internet
Jotwell@jotwell.bsky.social

Jotwell Crim: Aya Gruber, Sex and Tech, JOTWELL (May 21, 2026) (reviewing Brenda Dvoskin & Thomas E. Kadri, Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism, 39 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 59 (2026)), crim.jotwell.com/sex-and-tech/.

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So excited that Brokering Safety is finally out in the California Law Review! It was such a joy to write this piece with Thomas and Sam, however disturbing the underlying phenomenon we tackle: the abuse enabled by data brokers and the need for a centralized system to empower victims to opt out.

Thomas Kadri@thomaskadri.bsky.social

New in the 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 from Chinmayi Sharma, Sam Adler & me: 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 explores privacy law’s complicity in how data brokers exacerbate abuse & harassment. Such a pleasure working with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social, @samadler.bsky.social & the terrific team at @califlrev.bsky.social!

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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.

Sam Adler@samadler.bsky.social

“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....

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In short, we pitch interventions that look beyond sex-negative censorship & sanction. Sex regulation shouldn't generally strive to make the world safe 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 sexuality, but to make the world safer 𝘧𝘰𝘳 sexuality, by dismantling the legal, social, and technological structures that needlessly punish it.

papers.ssrn.comSafe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism<p>Lawmakers and technology companies are regulating online sexuality in the name of feminism. Whereas libertarian ideals dominated early debates about internet

The article interrogates the feminist strands animating some contemporary regulation of online sexuality. We then propose an alternative agenda grounded in queer & critical feminist theory, shifting focus away from punishing wrongdoers and toward the social determinants of sexual safety & autonomy.

Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for the generous recommendation of my forthcoming piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social

Download of the Week: "Deepfake Torts" by Kadri & West,, buff.ly/mHVqTbJ - The Download of the Week is Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfake Regulation by Thomas Kadri & Sonja West.

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Appreciate the opportunity to write with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social for @lawfaremedia.org to call for a more expansive right to obscurity, building off our article—Brokering Safety—forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

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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.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

A new provocation from me, @samadler.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social to extend the proposal in our forthcoming Calif. L. Rev. (@califlrev.bsky.social) piece by letting *anyone* force data brokers to obscure info through a centralized process. It's time to call the 1st Amendment question!

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

Thomas Kadri reposted

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....

papers.ssrn.comBrokering SafetyFor victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, a

Thomas Kadri reposted

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social , Brokering Safety, is forthcoming in the California Law Review! We look forward to presenting the article at the Consumer Law Scholars Conference and Privacy Law Scholars Conference.

papers.ssrn.comBrokering SafetyFor victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, a