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Professors Brenda Dvoskin of Washington University School of Law and Thomas E. Kadri of the University of Georgia School of Law have been selected as the recipients of the 2025–2026 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for their article Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism, forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.

Dvoskin and Kadri’s article offers a powerful critique of what they call “Big Tech feminism,” the regulatory and ideological movement through which lawmakers, technology companies, and some feminist advocates invoke women’s safety to justify prudish, punitive, and profit-driven restrictions on online sexual expression. Drawing on queer and critical feminist theory, the authors argue for a reimagined regulatory framework—one that shifts away from censorship and criminalization and toward empowering individuals to shape the norms and structures of digital sexual life.

Professor Dvoskin’s scholarship spans law, technology, and gender, with recent work on online safety, sexual privacy, and content moderation. She is an active contributor to global academic forums on law and technology and her work has been published in Fordham Law Review, Harvard Journal of International Law, Washington Law Review, and others. Professor Kadri writes at the intersection of law and digital abuse, with articles published or forthcoming in California Law Review, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and others. He is also the Legislative & Policy Director at Cornell’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse and principal investigator on a major NSF-funded project exploring AI, privacy, and law enforcement.

Professor Emily Gold Waldman, a member of the award committee, commented: “Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism is a pathbreaking piece that challenges the conventional wisdom about online safety and feminist regulatory aims. Dvoskin and Kadri force us to grapple with how well-intentioned interventions can undermine sexual autonomy and reproduce carceral logics.”

About the Award

The Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law is presented annually in recognition of outstanding legal scholarship related to gender and the law by a full-time law professor with five or fewer years of teaching experience. Papers are selected through a blind review process conducted by a committee of Haub Law faculty with expertise in gender and law. This year’s judges were Professors Jessica Miles, Emily Gold Waldman, and Bridget Crawford. The award recipients will be invited to present their work to the Haub Law community during the 2025–2026 academic year.

Nominations for the 2026–2027 award are due by July 1, 2026, and should be directed to Professor Bridget Crawford.