My Research
My research engages with the impacts of new technologies on human rights and related fields of law and public policy.
My work seeks to understand what human rights impacts such transformative technologies as artificial intelligence and quantum computing are causing, and what the respective roles of governments and businesses should be in addressing them. My scholarship also explores how technological change may require us to reconsider how we protect human rights.
Selected Articles
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “Quantum Technology and Human Rights: An Agenda for Collaboration” (2022) 7 Quantum Science and Technology ___. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ac81e7/
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “With Great (Computing) Power Comes Great (Human Rights) Responsibility: Cloud Computing and Human Rights” (2022) 7 Business and Human Rights Journal 226. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2022.8.
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “A Tale of Two Privacy Laws” (2020) American Journal of International Law Unbound 26. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2019.79
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “Are Internet Protocols the New Human Rights Protocols? Understanding RFC 8280–Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations” (2019) 4:1 Business and Human Rights Journal 163. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2018.30
Anupam Chander and Vivek Krishnamurthy, “The Myth of Platform Neutrality” (2018) 2: Georgetown L Tech Rev 400. https://perma.cc/7XDS-XRZG (40% contribution).
Selected Chapters
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Devony Schmidt, and Amy Lehr, “Cybersecurity and Human Rights: Understanding the Connection” in Jonathan Andrew & Frédéric Bernard, eds, Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age: States, Companies, and Individuals (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021) 19. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/human-rights-responsibilities-in-the-digital-age-9781509938841/ (60% contribution).
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “AI and Human Rights Law” in Teresa Scassa & Florian Martin-Bariteau, eds, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021) 211. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3734664.
Vivek Krishnamurthy, “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: A Contested Relationship” in Pina D’Agostino et al., eds, Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2021) 377. https://store.thomsonreuters.ca/en-ca/products/dagostinoleading-legal-disruption-artificial-intelligence-and-a-toolkit--42875035.
Selected Reports
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Mark Latonero, Rachel Kuchma, Elif Nur Kumru, and Genevieve Plumptre, Media Freedom and Technological Change, Carr Center Discussion Paper Series (August 2021). https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/211011-media_freedom_report-b.pdf (40% contribution).
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Jessica Fjeld, et al., CDA 230 Goes North American? Examining the Impacts of the USMCA’s Intermediary Liability Provisions in Canada and the United States (July 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3645462 (40% contribution).
Filippo Raso, Hannah Hilligoss, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Christopher T. Bavitz, and Levin Kim, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Opportunities and Risks. Berkman Klein Center Research Pub. No. 2018-06 (Sep. 24, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3259344 (30% contribution).
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Cloudy with a Conflict of Laws: How Cloud Computing Has Disrupted the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty System and Why It Matters. Berkman Center Research Pub. No 2016-03 (Feb. 16, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2733350 .