Stanford CIS
Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

Non-Residential Fellow

Daphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, and was formerly the Director of Intermediary Liability at CIS. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She has published both academically and in popular press; testified and participated in legislative processes; and taught and lectured extensively. Her recent work focuses on legal protections for users’ free expression rights when state and private power intersect, particularly through platforms’ enforcement of Terms of Service or use of algorithmic ranking and recommendations. Until 2015 Daphne was Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. She worked on groundbreaking Intermediary Liability litigation and legislation around the world and counseled both overall product development and individual content takedown decisions.

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Recent articles

Publication

Using the DSA to Study Platforms

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) established a host of new transparency mandates for online platforms. One of the simplest yet most critical allows researche…

Blog

Teaching Platform Regulation

This year I taught my “standard” platform regulation course for something like the twelfth time. Here’s the syllabus. The course has changed a lot over the year…

Press

The Brussels Effect: Daphne Keller

Our next guest in this series focuses on the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the risk of prematurely exporting an EU law: Daphne Keller, Director of the Pro…