Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

  • Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center
  • Lecturer, Stanford Law School

Biography

Daphne Keller's work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world, and published both academically and in popular press on topics including platform content moderation practices, constitutional and human rights law, copyright, data protection, and national courts' global takedown orders. Her recent work focuses on legal protections for users’ free expression rights when state and private power intersect, particularly through platforms’ enforcement of Terms of Service or use of algorithmic ranking and recommendations. Until 2020, Daphne was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. She also served until 2015 as Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. Daphne has taught Internet law at Stanford, Berkeley, and Duke law schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.

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PUBLICATIONS LIST

publications

Commentary
May 2023

Comment by Daphne Keller Re: Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act

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Comment by Daphne Keller Re: Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act
Journal Articles
May 2023

The Three-Body Problem: Platform Litigation and Absent Parties

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The Three-Body Problem: Platform Litigation and Absent Parties
Policy Briefs
January 2023

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

Author(s)
Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

In The News

The Right Honorable Jacinda Ardern and a delegation from the Christchirch Call joined Stanford researchers at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a roundtable discussion on technology governance and regulation.
News

Special Envoy Jacinda Ardern Assembles Stanford Scholars for Discussion on Technology Governance and Regulation

Led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern, a delegation from the Christchurch Call joined Stanford scholars to discuss how to address the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
Special Envoy Jacinda Ardern Assembles Stanford Scholars for Discussion on Technology Governance and Regulation
Encina Hall Entrance
Q&As

Stanford’s Daphne Keller on SCOTUS Decision that Google, Twitter, and Facebook not Responsible for Islamic State Deadly Posts

Q&A with Daphne Keller. Published by the Stanford Law School
Stanford’s Daphne Keller on SCOTUS Decision that Google, Twitter, and Facebook not Responsible for Islamic State Deadly Posts
Encina Hall Entrance
Q&As

Q&A: Section 230 is at the Supreme Court. Here’s Why that Matters for Free Expression

Four legal experts, including PPR's Daphne Keller weigh in on two cases at the United States Supreme Court that could alter how the internet functions, how it is governed, and how users engage with it. Published in Freedom House.
Q&A: Section 230 is at the Supreme Court. Here’s Why that Matters for Free Expression
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