Alan Rubel
Associate Professor & Director; advisor, dual degree program with Law
608-263-2900
4259 Helen C. White Hall
600 N Park St, Madison, WI 53706
- Pronouns
- He | Him | His
Education:
J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School 2003
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006
Research Interests:
Research fields – Information ethics, policy, and law
Areas of interest – Information privacy and security, surveillance, algorithmic decision-making, bioethics
Classes taught:
LIS 461: Data and Algorithms: Ethics and Policy
LIS 460 / Legal Studies 460: Surveillance, Privacy, and Police Powers
Legal Studies 450: Jurisprudence and Contemporary Issues
LIS 661: Information Ethics and Policy
Recent Publications:
Alan Rubel, Clinton Castro, and Adam Pham. “Algorithms, Agency, and Respect for Persons.” Social Theory & Practice 43(3) (2020): 547–72.
Alan Rubel and Kyle Jones, “The Temptation of Data-Enabled Surveillance: Are Universities the Next Cautionary Tale?” Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) 63(4) (2020): 22–24.
Alan Rubel, Clinton Castro, and Adam Pham. “Agency Laundering and Information Technologies.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2019): 1017–41
Alan Rubel, Privacy, Ethics, and Institutional Research. New Directions for Institutional Research (2019): 5-16.
Clinton Castro, Adam Pham, and Alan Rubel, “Epistemic Paternalism Online,” forthcoming in in A. Bernal and G. Axtell (Eds.), Epistemic Paternalism Reconsidered (Rowman & Littlefield) (2020)