Where There Are Rights‪™‬

WHERE THERE ARE RIGHTS™ exposes how negligence has been built into the digital and institutional frameworks that shape modern life. From social platforms to legislative acts, Katherine Starr shows how accountability has been systemically deferred, leaving individuals to carry harms that should never have been theirs to bear.
Drawing on her dual perspective as a Legal Theorist and Two-Time Olympian, Starr reveals how law, technology, and governance intersect and how that intersection has been allowed to fracture. In accessible yet rigorous terms, she introduces trademarked legal frameworks that name what courts, policymakers, and institutions have ignored: that negligence has an architecture, a frequency, and a delegation pattern and where there are rights, there must also be remedies. These remedies are now ready to be tested in law.
With nearly two decades of experience as an expert witness, Starr has advised on Title IX and constitutional cases, consulted for the U.S. Department of Justice, and been upheld as an expert at the appellate level. Her frameworks covering digital access, systemic architecture, frequency, delegation, and institutional shielding are primed to establish new causes of action, influencing how negligence is pled in courts and understood in policy debates.
At once urgent and forward-thinking, WHERE THERE ARE RIGHTS™ is not simply a critique of institutional failure but a roadmap for reclaiming accountability. Whether read by legal professionals, policymakers, or anyone affected by digital harm, it offers new tools for navigating a world where rights are too often abstract, and negligence has become the unspoken default.
Featured by ESPN, NPR, BBC, and The New York Times, Katherine Starr brings both authority and clarity to the most pressing questions of our time: What happens when negligence is designed into our systems, and how do we restore rights where they have been eroded?