Alan Rubel
Position title: Professor and Director
Email: arubel@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-2900
Address:
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:
Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (with Clinton Castro and Adam Pham) (Open Access version)
“Comparing Use Terms in Spanish and UW Research University E-journal Licenses: Recent Trends,” College & Research Libraries, 82(2), 158–181 (with Juan Carlos Fernández-Molina and Kristin Eschenfelder).
“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 (with Kyle Jones).
“Algorithms, Agency, and Respect for Persons.” Social Theory & Practice 43(3) (2020): 547–72 (with Clinton Castro and Adam Pham)
“Agency Laundering and Information Technologies.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2019): 1017–41 (with Clinton Castro and Adam Pham)