Chloe Georas

University of Puerto Rico

Chloé S. Georas is Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Law School, where she combines her formation in Law (J.D. from New York University School of Law and LL.M. from University of Ottawa) and Cultural Studies/Art History (M.A. and doctoral studies from State University of New York, Binghamton) to examine the complex intersections of technology with gender, colonial/racial histories, cultural memory and art. In recent years, she has developed the following courses: "Art, Technology and Law" (created for the yearly Winter Exchange Program with the University of Ottawa), "Gender Constructions in Visual Culture and Law" and "Techno-Feminisms: Gender, Technology and Law" (both created for the Gender Studies Program and Law School at the University of Puerto Rico) . She combines her teaching duties with the direction of the Cyberlaw Clinic and co-direction of Creative Commons Puerto Rico. She has published her academic writings both in Puerto Rico and abroad, including the United States, Canada, Spain, England, Chile and Argentina. Her research includes work on racial bias in predictive technology, performance and gender in the courtroom as well as work on policy implications of social network archives. She is currently collaborating in two projects: 1)"Re-Informing Policy Responses to a Systemic Continuum of Sexual Violence and “Rape Culture” in Universities: A Multi-Sector Partnership to Facilitate Dialogic Learning, Safe Spaces and Creativity," under the direction of Dr. Shaheen Shariff at McGill University in Montreal; and, 2) "eQuality Project" under the direction of Prof. Jane Bailey and Prof. Valerie Steeves from the University of Ottawa, which explores how privacy, online behavioral targeting, and cyberbullying through an equality lens, and how the data obtained through ecommerce is used for behavioral marketing that shapes attitudes and behaviors and profiling, which can reinforce mainstream stereotypes and lead to discrimination and cyberbullying.