SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH
Papers & Publications
Foundational legal doctrine, empirical discovery roadmaps, and policy treatises on algorithmic accountability, cognitive integrity, and technological governance by Mike Sapp.
202666 Pages · ~28,400 Words
#Sports Betting#Algorithmic Tort#Cognitive Integrity
Platform Exploitation, Cognitive Integrity, and the Missing Half of Sports Betting Law
Exposes the critical regulatory gap between market integrity and cognitive integrity in mobile sports betting. Establishes the Algorithmic Toxicity Tort (ATT) and the Manipulation-Vulnerability Matrix to hold zero-sum gambling platforms liable for deploying real-time behavioral telemetry to exploit bettors in acute crisis states.
202513 Pages · ~3,800 Words
#Forensic Audio#Deepfakes#Evidence Law
A New Framework for Forensic Audio Authentication in the Age of AI
Addresses the courtroom evidentiary crisis posed by AI voice cloning and the 'liar's dividend.' Proposes the Graduated Audio Authentication Framework (GAAF)—a four-tiered, risk-calibrated standard that replaces outdated lay-ear witness rules with modern forensic signal processing and cost-shifting procedural safeguards.
202583 Pages · ~24,700 Words
#Algorithmic Liability#Social Media#Section 230
Algorithmic Behavioral Tort
A groundbreaking legal framework establishing tort liability for engagement-maximizing social media algorithms. Distinguishing algorithmic behavioral conditioning from third-party content, it provides courts with an actionable roadmap through Section 230 and the First Amendment to hold platforms accountable for manufactured outrage and psychological harm.
202457 Pages · ~17,200 Words
#Bioethics#Gene Editing#CRISPR
Strategic State Competition and the Race for Gene Supremacy
Introduces 'strategic consequentialism' to explain how great power rivalry is fundamentally transforming the governance of human germline genome editing—shifting bioethics from abstract principles of human dignity to the geopolitical imperatives of national technological supremacy.