Evelyn Ortiz Soto is a graduate student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy PhD program at UC Berkeley Law. Their work centers on law and society with special attention to legal mobilization and Queer identity politics informed by critical theory. Blending computational social science and qualitative methods, their research examines the implications of AI governance and far-right legal mobilization for queer youth and their digital identities. Utilizing an original dataset of federal bills extracted from the U.S. Government Publishing Office, they employ computational text-mining and network analysis to track how diverging, partisan regulatory philosophies construct "online harm." Ultimately, this work maps how these competing legislative architectures impact platform liability, digital rights, and the protection of marginalized youth in digital spaces.
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Jurisprudence and Social Policy PhD, UC Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley
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