Sayoko Blodgett-Ford

Sease Faculty Research Scholar and Associate Professor of Law

515-271-3865
sayoko.blodgettford@drake.edu 

Areas of Expertise

Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and Privacy Law

Education

JD - Yale Law School
Bioethics Fellowship - NYU School of Global Public Health
MA - Columbia University - Philosophy
MS - University of Maryland College Park - Physics (Theoretical Quantum Mechanics)
BS - College of William and Mary - Physics

Professional Experience

GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates, Tetris Online Inc., Nintendo of America Inc., Boston College Law School (adjunct), University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law (lecturer-in-law), University of Washington Law School (IP LLM - adjunct), Foley Hoag & Eliot LLP, Law Clerk to Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Court (D. Mass), Arnold & Porter (summer associate), U.S. Dept. of Justice Honors Program (summer intern - Federal Programs Branch), National Institute of Standards and Technology, KFMM radio station Arizona (disc jockey)

Selected Publications

• Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines (Published June 2021) (co-editor with Woodrow Barfield), available at https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3859
• "Copyright, Fair Use and AI Technology Development: Time to Sunset the 'Transformative Purpose' Test" (book chapter) in the Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (2nd edition - forthcoming 2024 - Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo, editors)
• "Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings," in Philosophies journal Special Issue (January 2021) available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/human_enhancement_technologies
• "A Real Right to Privacy for Artificial Intelligence" (book chapter) in the Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo, editors) (1st edition 2018) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-the-law-of-artificial-intelligence
• Advertising Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (2018) (co-authors: Woodrow Barfield and Alexander Williams)
• Data Privacy Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (2018) (co-author Mirjam Supponen) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-the-law-of-virtual-and-augmented-reality
• The Changing Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms, 6 SETON HALL CONST. LAW J. 101 (1995); Do Battered Women Have a Right to Bear Arms? 11 YALE L. & POL’Y REV. 509 (1993)
• Gun Controls and the Connecticut Constitution, 66 CONN. BAR J. 425 (1992) (with J. Drake Turrentine); Intense-field multiphoton ionization of a two-electron atom, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 29 (1996) L33–L42 (with Jonathan Parker, K T Taylor and Charles W Clark)
• Sequential vs. simultaneous ionization of two-electron atoms by intense laser radiation, in Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1992), paper PD29 (with J. Parker and C. Clark)
• Integration of the Schrödinger Equation on a Massively Parallel Processor, in Short- Wavelength Coherent Radiation: Generation and Application, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1991), paper TuA6 (with J. Parker and C. Clark)