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Drawing on her human rights expertise and background as an intellectual property litigator, Professor Land’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of human rights, science, and technology. Her most recent work considers the respective obligations of governments and Internet companies in regulating speech online as well as the effect of new technologies on human rights fact-finding, advocacy, and enforcement. 

Professor Land’s articles have been published in the Yale, Harvard, and Michigan journals of international law, among other places, and she speaks and lectures widely on the relationship between technology and human rights. She has also authored several human rights reports, including a report for the World Bank on the role of new technologies in promoting human rights. Professor Land is a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Prior to joining the University of Connecticut, Professor Land was an associate professor of law at New York Law School. Her teaching experience also includes serving as a Visiting Lecturer in Law and Allard K. Lowenstein/Robert M. Cover Fellow in International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Before beginning her career in the academy, Professor Land was an associate at Faegre & Benson LLP in Minneapolis, where she represented clients in intellectual property disputes, and a fellow at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. She clerked for the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn, Professor Land earned her J.D. at Yale Law School.

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Download the report: http://bit.ly/ICT4HRreport

The linkage between information and communication technologies (ICT) and human rights is a subject that has not received a lot of attention until recently. A new report, ICT for Human Rights, is an effort to contribute to the studies in this field by providing new knowledge and experience of the nexus between protection and promotion of human rights, and the use of ICT.
 
The study has been led by Professor Molly Land at New York Law School and her colleagues. Within the World Bank, Tiago Peixoto from the World Bank Institute (WBI) and Hans-Otto Sano of the Nordic Trust Fund were involved in commissioning the work. A series of consultations were held between the World Bank staff and Professor Land and her colleagues, including other members of the writing team — Patrick Meier, Mark Belinsky and Emily Jacobi. Patrick Boyle, Christoph Doellefeld, Adam Gartenberg, Meredith Hutchison, John Kelly, Joe Raffanello and Carl Zander provided excellent research and drafting assistance. After a review of the draft in May 2012, the final report was presented by Professor Land at a broader World Bank team on July 17th, 2012.
 
The study's co-sponsor ICT4Gov-ODTA project at the WBI has now run for nearly three years, supported by the Nordic Trust Fund and directed by WBI's Senior Governance Specialist Boris Weber. While most of the work of the project highlighted in this report focuses on country activities in the intersection of governance and human rights, the report opens the space for learning at a general and cross-cutting level, including reports from a number of country case studies in Eastern Africa, in Central America, and globally.

Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights - An interview with Molly Land

With Internet censorship spiking, the U.S. has become concerned
that technology will undermine freedom of expression. Law Professor
Molly Land tells Jim Zirin  that a 1966 international treaty on civil
and political rights was prescient in providing a framework for protecting 
digital human rights around the world.

Digital Age-Is There an  International Law of the Internet?-Molly Land

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