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Registry 01 · Researcher
Prof. L. Okafor
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Consent-of-the-governed doctrine is intact, but its operational machinery, notice, comprehension, redress, is incompatible with the systems now governing daily life.
Classification
Research lineage
Introductions by invitation
Constitutional Scholar · Democratic Accountability
Brief / 01
Context record
Prof. L. Okafor is part of the RAND Network on Futurecraft, a curated layer of researchers, policy scholars, and institutional architects whose work informs how the platform organizes the questions, salons, and Research-to-Reality opportunities it surfaces to members.
Their current focus: How does the constitutional vocabulary of consent translate to systems no citizen meaningfully understands? The working thesis: Consent-of-the-governed doctrine is intact, but its operational machinery, notice, comprehension, redress, is incompatible with the systems now governing daily life.
Why this matters now: Doctrinal modernization is the slowest-moving discipline relevant to the fastest-moving technology. The most productive collaborations from this profile tend to involve Civil society litigators and Technologists building public-interest infrastructure, drawing on the open research questions and portfolio listed below. Introductions are by invitation only and brokered through Futurecraft curators.
02 / PROFILE
Research record
Constitutional Scholar · Democratic Accountability
Current question
How does the constitutional vocabulary of consent translate to systems no citizen meaningfully understands?
Why this matters
Open questions
- , Where can collective consent substitute for individual consent?
- , What is the redress architecture for systemic harm?
Collaboration opportunities
- , Civil society litigators
- , Technologists building public-interest infrastructure
Research portfolio
- , Yale Law Journal · 'Consent at Scale'
- , Briefing to two supreme courts