Cory Scott, Executive Director of the CSU Law Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection, has been appointed to Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) as part of the inaugural 2026 cohort of Non‑Resident Technology Fellows. This new initiative is designed to connect experienced technologists with state and local governments grappling with complex technology regulation.
At a conference hosted by the Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet, Cory Scott—Executive Director of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at CSU Law and a former CISO at companies including LinkedIn, Google, and Confluent—delivered a focused presentation on data privacy risks emerging in the AI “infrastructure” layer.
Scott distinguished between frontier model developers and the “pipes” that route, host, or broker AI traffic, arguing that infrastructure providers are increasingly attempting to access and analyze user content in ways that erode trust and depart from established enterprise expectations. Using OpenRouter as a case study, Scott walked the audience through how changing terms and “anonymized” categorization claims can mask meaningful data use—highlighting the practical risk of re-identification through metadata and the lack of technical disclosure about how anonymization is performed—and he pointed to similar trends among other providers such as RunPod.
In the discussion, Scott emphasized that organizations need clearer policies and stronger oversight of third‑party AI services (including prosumer tools purchased on corporate cards), and he outlined risk-management approaches ranging from negotiating commercial agreements to building internal AI routing infrastructure to preserve control over sensitive data.
Visiting Assistant Professor Deborah Hoffman co-led a CEO roundtable hosted by Essent Mortgage Insurance alongside industry executive Eric Lapin on March 27. The session convened senior leaders across the mortgage industry to discuss the role of blockchain and digital assets in housing finance.
The discussion examined how existing digital infrastructure, including e-docs, eNotes, remote online notarization, and licensing frameworks, has evolved in recent years while underlying systems remain fragmented. Professor Hoffman highlighted legal and compliance considerations related to verification, auditability, and the integration of digital assets into lending practices.
The roundtable also explored blockchain’s potential as an infrastructure layer to support more consistent, transparent, and defensible data across the mortgage lifecycle.
Professor Milena Sterio was quoted in an article by PolitFact on April 2, on the topic of “It is a war crime to bomb civilian infrastructure, as Donald Trump has threatened?”
Professor Sterio explained that bombing a civilian target intentionally is “a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” which “would give rise to a war crime.” Professor Sterio also opined on the status of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. She stated that the Protocol has “the status of customary law, which is binding on all states,” and that “[i]t doesn’t not matter that the U.S. is not a member of the protocol.”
On March 27, Professor Lorenzo Luisetto presented a new working paper, “Beyond the Global Rise of Noncompetes,” at the Law & Economics Conference hosted by Vanderbilt Law School. The conference featured eight speakers presenting research on a wide range of topics, including labor‑market regulation and the economics of crime.
In his talk, Professor Luisetto presented a new work in progress based on the first multi‑country survey on the use of noncompete agreements across 15 OECD countries, complementing evidence from employee surveys with information from firms.
Professor Milena Sterio conducted an online expert training for a cohort of Ukrainian prosecutors on prosecuting environmental crimes, as ecocide or as war crimes. The training was organized by the International Bar Association, and it took place on March 27th. Professor Sterio focused on the definition of the war crime of destruction against the environment under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, as well as on the development of the crime of ecocide under national law as well as international criminal law. Professor Sterio has already conducted similar trainings in person with different cohorts of Ukrainian prosecutors.
Professor Milena Sterio moderated a debate on the legality of Operation Epic Fury (Iran) on March 26. The debate was organized by the Federalist Society at Ohio Northern University Law School, and it featured Professor Dan Maurer (Ohio Northern) and Professor Robert Turner (University of Virginia Law School).
Professor Sterio participated in another episode of the “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show, a quarterly show broadcast on Ideastream (Cleveland-area NPR affiliate radio station) on the topic of “Assessing Trump’s Board of Peace in the wake of US-Iran war.” The episode was broadcast live on March 24, and it is available for on-demand listening here.
In addition to Professor Sterio, other experts on this show included Professor Michael Scharf as host (CWRU School of Law), Harold Hongju Koh (Yale Law School), Leila Sadat (Washington University School of Law), and Jessica Peake (UCLA School of Law). The experts discussed President Trump’s creation of the Board of Peace, the Board’s mandate, and its legitimacy in light of the existing United Nations-based international legal order.
Professor Milena Sterio participated as an expert and moderator in a United Nations event on March 10, titled “Women’s Equal Right to Participate in the Judiciary and Women’s Access to Justice: More Women, More Access.” This event was organized as a side event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women conference at UN headquarters in New York City.
The event focused on the need for equal and inclusive participation of women in the international judiciary, including at the International Court of Justice. The panelists included Ambassador Jennifer Feller, Director General for Human Rights and Democracy, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Catherine Amirfar, Partner & Co-Chair, International Dispute Resolution and Public International Law Groups, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Ms. Akila Radhakrishnan, Legal Advisor, End Gender Apartheid Campaign; Professor Jelena Pia-Comella, Independent Expert, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) ; Amanda Chong, Counsellor (Legal), Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations; Ms. Amie Lewis, Senior Program Officer and Lead, Women in Leadership in Law (WILIL) Initiative, International Association of Women Judges; Claudia M. Flores, Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls; and Lucía Solano, Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Colombia.
The event was organized by the Gender Parity at the ICJ project, co-sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association, the Women in International Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law, as well the Permanent Missions of Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Singapore.
Professor Milena Sterio provided an expert review for Kriminologie, a peer reviewed online journal in the field of criminology based in Germany. Professor Sterio’s expert review focused on an article about the role of war crimes prosecutions in the transitional justice process of Kosovo.
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