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Daniel Slate

Daniel Slate

Visiting Assistant Professor

Daniel Slate, visiting assistant professor of law, researches and writes on law and technology, emergency powers, and constitutional history. His technology law scholarship is informed by previous experience in the software industry, where he worked in product management, business development, and privacy and civil liberties roles. In the past year, his article Infringed has been cited in federal judicial opinions and at oral argument before the United States Supreme Court in Wolford v. Lopez.

Slate is a faculty affiliate of the AI Trust and Reliability Lab and the Human-Centered Responsible AI Lab at Notre Dame’s Data, AI, and Computing Initiative. He is also a member of the Working Group on AI Constitutionalism. He earned his B.A. in philosophy, with honors and distinction, J.D., and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and also studied in yeshivot in Israel.

Courses Taught

LAW 73132 - Data Privacy Law

Scholarship

ScrapeBench: Evaluating Legal Compliance of AI Agents in Website Scraping, 39 Adv. Neural Info. Processing Sys.__ (forthcoming 2026) (peer-reviewed) (with Joseph Marvin Imperial and Noam Kolt).

The Chief Magistrate, 4 J. Am. Con. Hist. __ (forthcoming 2026) (peer-reviewed)

Law, Furnace, Plow, Mind, in Technology Ethics (Gregory J. Robson & Jonathan Y. Tsou, eds., 2d ed.) (forthcoming 2026/2027).

Converting Raw Data Into Actionable Information: A topical review of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital twins in disaster management, 14 IEEE Geosci. & Remote Sensing Mag. 76 (2026) (peer-reviewed) (with A. Albayrak et al.).

Iterative Contextual Consent: AI-enabled Data Privacy Contracts, Ass’n Comput. Mach. HAIPS 25 Proc. Hum.-Centered AI Priv. & Sec. 84 (Comput. & Commc’ns Sec.) (2025) (with Chaoran Chen, Tobi Ji-Jia Li & Yaxing Yao).

Infringed, 3 J. Am. Con. Hist. 381 (2025) (peer-reviewed).

Cited by Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris at oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez (No. 24-1406 Supreme Court OT 2025) (transcript at 41, lines 11–20), as well as in briefs of petitioners, amicus curiae United States, and amicus curiae Everytown for Gun Safety
Cited in United States v. Berger, No. 24-2125, 2026 WL 2577367, at *5 (3d Cir. Sept. 1, 2026).
Cited in Christian v. James, 176 F.4th 189, 209–10 (2d Cir. 2026) (Menashi, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part)
Cited in Elite Precision Customs LLC, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 805 F. Supp. 3d 711 (N.D. Tex. 2025)
Cited in Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715, 50. Op. O.L.C. __ (Jan. 15, 2026) (slip op.)
Featured on the Second Thoughts blog of the Duke Center for Firearms Law (Scholarship Highlight: The Original Meaning of ‘Infringed’)
Featured on the Divided Argument legal blog (Things to Read This Week)
Referenced in SCOTUSblog’s A Second Opinion (Are judges good historians?)

Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Electric Utilities, 45 Energy L. J. 1 (2024) (peer-reviewed) (with Alexandre Parisot, Liang Min, Patrick Panciatici & Pascal Van Hentenryck).

Crisis Government’s Legitimacy Paradox: Foreseeability and Unobservable Success, in Intersections, Reinforcements, and Cascades 248 (Daniel Zimmer, Trond Undheim, & Paul N. Edwards, eds., 2023).

Franklin’s Talmud: Hebraic Republicanism in the Constitutional Convention and the Debates over Ratification, 1787–1788, 1 J. Am. Con. Hist. 232 (2023) (peer-reviewed).

Honorable Mention, Stanford Legal History Paper Prize (2021)
Featured on Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog

The Architecture of Privacy: On Engineering Technologies that Can Deliver Trustworthy Safeguards (2015) (with Courtney Bowman, Ari Gesher, John K. Grant & Elissa Lerner).