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Professors of Law Albertina Antognini and Andrew Keane Woods have both been named Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Rights of the Unmarried
Albertina has spent years analyzing the way courts handle claims of unwed partners after a relationship ends. The codified divorce procedures that apply to married couples do not apply to those who are unmarried. Outside of marriage, an individual seeking a division of assets, including property or support, faces many barriers.
While assisting the Uniform Law Commission with developing draft legislation around regulating the rights of unmarried couples, Albertina became interested in how countries around the world have addressed this issue. This fall, she will get her chance to find out in Stockholm, Sweden where she will conduct a comparative review of the county’s approach to regulating nonmarital relationships.
“Sweden is one of the first countries to have passed an act regulating what rights unmarried couples have, and the rates of unmarried couples are very high in Sweden,” said Albertina, who co-directs the Family and Juvenile Law Certificate program. “There are many differences between Sweden and the U.S., but I think it’s an interesting place to look at in considering what other models are out there that may be relevant as we undertake reform efforts domestically.”
Digital Sovereignty
For more than 20 years, the U.S. and Europe have pursued very different visions of what state control over the internet can and should look like. Andrew will explore these topics during his Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Award starting in January of 2023.
“As the U.S. debates digital privacy, online speech, and related topics, we should draw on the experience of other sovereign efforts to regulate the internet,” explains Andrew, who co-directs University of Arizona Law’s TechLaw program. “What might an American version of GDPR (Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation) look like? What lessons could be learned from other countries’ approaches to AI and cybersecurity?”
Andrew will focus his work on understanding how aggressively the state should shape our digital lives by comparing U.S. and E.U. policies on artificial intelligence, privacy and cybersecurity. He will conduct his work at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark which houses the Digitalization Hub.
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