People
Faculty Fellows
Helen Nissenbaum
Coordinator
Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Nissenbaum’s research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited three books and a fourth, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, is due out in 2009, with Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, and facial recognition technology. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Barton Beebe joins NYU School of Law Fall 2009 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Barton Beebe received the Class of 2007 Award for Best Professor. Prior to joining Cardozo’s faculty, he clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Professor Beebe received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, his Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, and his B.A. from the University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa). In 2007, Professor Beebe served as a Special Master, with Professor Daniel J. Capra, in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 2990 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.). Professor Beebe’s teaching and scholarship focuses on intellectual property law.
Ira Rubinstein
In residence Fall 2008 and 2009
Ira Rubinstein is a newly appointed Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet profiling, electronic surveillance law, online identity, Internet security and software liability. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on numerous occasions. His most recent publication is "Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches," co-authored with Ron Lee and Paul Schwartz, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 261 (2008). Prior to joining the ILI, he spent 17 years in Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1985. Rubinstein has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. He is a board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation and previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a Trustee of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation.
Katherine Strandburg joines NYU School of Law Fall 2009 from DePaul University College of Law. A distinguished intellectual property scholar, Kathy's research interests are in patent law, science and technology policy, law and network science, social norm theory, and information privacy law. Trained as a physicist, Kathy's scholarship is informed by her experience as a research scientist and her interdisciplinary perspective. Before embarking on a legal career, Kathy received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon from 1984 to 1987. She also conducted research with the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Argonne National Laboratory from 1987 to 1992, and was a visiting faculty member of the physics department at Northwestern University from 1990 to 1992. Kathy earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1995 and clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler ’01 teaches Contracts, Commercial Law, and Topics in E-Commerce. Her expertise is on online contracting in general and software licensing in particular. Her published research has addressed online standard form contracting with delayed disclosure; contracting in the presence of seller market power; and, online dispute resolution clauses including arbitration. Her current research documents the extremely low readership rate of standard form contracts by consumers and discusses implications for regulation of standard terms. Professor Marotta-Wurgler earned a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D., cum laude, from the NYU School of Law, where she was a Robert McKay Scholar and winner of the Daniel G. Collins Prize for Excellence in Contract Law. Before joining the faculty she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a Corporate Fellow at the Center for Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law at Fordham University School of Law, and a Leonard Wagner Fellow in Law and Business at the Pollack Center for Law and Business at NYU Law and Stern School of Business.
Student Fellows
Solon Barocas
Solon Barocas is a doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He was previously a Program Associate at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he helped administer major research initiatives on intercultural contact, social inequality, and the social and political consequences of the war on terror. Earlier, he served as Deputy Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, housed at the London School of Economics, where he also obtained his MSc in International Relations. His master's thesis, "De/re/coding Security in 'Societies of Control:' Data-mining as Political Practice," was recently published in a special issue of the St Antony's International Review on "The Internet: Power and Governance in a Digitised World," which he also presented at a related conference co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Barocas graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art-Semiotics and International Relations. At the University's Watson Institute for International Studies, he worked for over two years on the Information, Technology, War, and Peace Project.
Amanda Conley
Amanda Conley is a student at the New York University School of Law. Before coming to law school, she received an MA in Sociology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a BA in Psychology from Illinois Wesleyan University. While in graduate school she worked as a research assistant on a grant from the National Institute of Health, studying the interaction between genes and the social environment as predictors of adolescent behavior. She has published in the field of demography and health, and has taught courses in the sociology of gender, social deviance, statistical analysis, and social psychology. She is currently working with Professor Helen Nissenbaum in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, examining issues of privacy in electronic court documents. Beginning in the summer of 2009, she will be working with Professor Florencia Marotta-Wurgler at the law school, studying online contracting behavior and internet privacy issues. A champion Soap Box Derby racer in her youth, Amanda now spends most of her time working in the library and taking her one-year-old puppy for walks in Prospect Park.
Affiliates
Elizabeth Stark is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, where she founded the Harvard Free Culture group. She serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting technological freedom and access to culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Advocates for Human Rights on new media and as a founding member of the Anti-Torture Group. Elizabeth conducts research for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has served as a Teaching Fellow for courses in Cyberlaw, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She has collaborated with organizations such as Creative Commons, iCommons, the Free Software Foundation, and the One Laptop per Child project. Elizabeth has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.
Past Fellows
Gaia Bernstein: 2002-2003
Niva Elkin-Koren: 2004-2005
Gregory Pomerantz: 2001-2002
Katherine Strandburg: 2007-2008
Alan Toner: 2001-2002
Philip Weiser: Fall 2008
Michael Zimmer: 2004-2007
Jonathan Zittrain: Spring 2008
Administrator
Nicole Arzt
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