Technology Law & Policy Clinic Team

Jason Schultz
Director

Jason is a Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. His clinical projects, research, and writing primarily focus on practical frameworks and policy options to help traditional areas of law such as intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, and civil rights adapt in light of new technologies and the challenges they pose. His most recent work focuses on the social and legal implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.

Nate Freed Wessler 
Adjunct Professor

Nate is a deputy director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where he focuses on litigation and advocacy around surveillance and privacy issues, including government searches of electronic devices, requests for sensitive data held by third parties, and use of surveillance technologies. Nate was previously a staff attorney in the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and legal fellow in the ACLU National Security Project. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nate is a graduate of Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar. Before law school, he worked as a field organizer in the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office.

Patrick K. Lin
Clinical Teaching Fellow

Patrick is the Clinical Teaching Fellow of the Technology Law & Policy Clinic and Science, Health & Information Clinic. He is the author of Machine See, Machine Do, a book about how institutions use technology to surveil, police, and make decisions about the public, as well as the historical biases that impact that technology. His research interests include privacy, copyright, consumer protection, and the intersection of technology and civil rights.

Earlier in his career, Patrick worked at a litigation boutique and Latham & Watkins in New York. Previously, he was the Judith Bresler Fellow at the Center for Art Law. Before joining NYU, he was a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Carr-Center for Human Rights Policy and clerked for a district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Patrick received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. in Economics from NYU.