People

Katherine Strandburg (Director)
katherine.strandburg@nyu.edu

Katherine Strandburg specializes in innovation policy and information privacy law, focusing on the interplay between social behavior and technological change.  She has authored amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and federal appellate courts on these issues. Recent publications include a First Amendment critique of “metadata" surveillance and the co-edited book, Governing Knowledge Commons. Professor Strandburg graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to her legal career, she was a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, having received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon.

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (Faculty Fellow)
wurglerf@mercury.law.nyu.edu

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler teaches and does research on Internet and consumer standard form contracts, and privacy. Her published research has addressed online standard form contracting with delayed disclosure, contracting in the presence of seller market power, and dispute resolution clauses in consumer standard form contracts. Her current research focuses on a large empirical project on online privacy policies, disclosure, and the effectiveness of the Federal Trade Commission's enforcement actions against firms for privacy violations. She has participated in FTC hearings, testified before the US Senate, and presented her scholarship at more than 125 conferences and universities around the world.

Ira Rubinstein (Faculty Fellow)
ira.rubinstein@nyu.edu

Ira Rubinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute (ILI), NYU School of Law, and teaches courses in privacy law. His research interests include Internet privacy, surveillance, big data, and Internet security. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics five times. He previously spent 17 years in Microsoft's law department, most recently as Associate General Counsel, running the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. In 2010, he joined the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Rubinstein graduated from Yale Law School in 1985.

Jason Schultz (Faculty Fellow)
jason.schultz@nyu.edu

Jason M. Schultz is a Professor of Clinical Law, Director of NYU's Technology Law & Policy Clinic, 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.

Helen Nissenbaum (Faculty Partner, Cornell Tech)
hn288@cornell.edu

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech. Her research takes an ethical perspectives on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media and data science. Topics have included privacy, trust, accountability, security, and values in technology design. Her books include Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015) and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010). Grants from the NSF, AFOSR, and the U.S. DHHS-ONC have supported her work. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association, Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing software, including TrackMeNot and AdNauseam. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in philosophy and mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Helen is the former director of the Information Law Institute at NYU School of Law and the founder of the Privacy Research Group. 

Michal Shur-Ofry (Visiting Faculty Fellow)
michalshur@huji.ac.il

Michal Shur-Ofry is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty, where she researches and teaches in the areas of Intellectual Property, Law and Technology, and Law and Complexity Theory. She received her LL.B. (Magna cum Laude) and Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and her LL.M. from University College London, as a Chevening–Sainer Scholar. Her recent scholarship focuses on the application of insights from complexity and network theory to the design of legal rules and policies. In addition, she explores regulatory responses to the systemic effects of AI, and is also interested in the intersection between law and collective memory. She has authored numerous publications in these areas, and is currently working on a book on “Law and Complexity” (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

Sunoo Park (Faculty Affiliate, NYU Courant)
sunoo.park@nyu.edu

Sunoo Park is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Affiliated Interdisciplinary Faculty at the NYU School of Law. Her research is in technology law and policy, with particular interest in the security, privacy, and transparency of digital technologies. In computer science, she does research in cryptography and computer security. She received her J.D. at Harvard Law School, her Ph.D. in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her B.A. in computer science at the University of Cambridge.

Aniket Kesari (Faculty Affiliate, Fordham School of Law)
akesari@fordham.edu

Aniket Kesari is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. His research spans law & technology, data science, and public policy. He conducts empirical research on questions in law & tech, and has written about privacy, cybersecurity, trademarks, and algorithmic decisionmaking. Prior to joining Fordham, he was an ILI Fellow. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, a JD from Yale, and a BA from Rutgers - New Brunswick.

Albert Fox Cahn (ILI Practitioner-in-Residence)

Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's (S.T.O.P.'s) founder and executive director, and he is also a fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and Ashoka.  Albert is a frequent commentator on civil rights, privacy, and technology matters.  He is a contributor to the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guardian, WIRED, Slate, NBC Think, Newsweek, and dozens of other publications.  Albert previously served as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on technology policy, antitrust law, and consumer privacy. In addition, to his work at S.T.O.P., Albert serves on the New York Immigration Coalition's Immigrant Leaders Council, the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund's Advisory Council, and is an editorial board member for the Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection.  He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review), and his B.A. in Politics and Philosophy in Brandeis University.

Sebastian Benthall (Senior Research Fellow)

Sebastian Benthall is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.  He is developing heterogeneous agent modeling techniques to study the relationship between the economy of personal data, the real economy, and the financial system.  He is also interested in software accountability and internet governance.

David Stein (ILI Fellow)

David is an ILI Fellow at NYU Law. Before coming to NYU, David spent a decade working in the tech industry, including roles leading cybersecurity and conducting privacy and AI research at Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, directing the engineering department at Braze, and building products and analytics systems at Dropbox and Foursquare. David studied computer science at MIT, where his research focused on robotics and satellite design.

Kat Geddes (ILI Fellow)

Kat Geddes is a joint postdoctoral fellow at NYU School of Law and the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech. She studies the normative incompatibilities between law and data science as competing modes of governance, and competing epistemologies. She recently defended her JSD dissertation, "Computational Prediction: The Co-Evolution of Law and Technology," at NYU School of Law. Prior to academia, Kat worked as a judicial clerk and litigation associate in Sydney, Australia. She holds an LLB/B.Comm from the University of New South Wales, an LLM from Cambridge University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a JSD from NYU Law.

Gabriel Nicholas (ILI Resident Affiliate)

Paul Friedl (ILI Affiliate)

Paul Friedl is a JSD candidate and researcher at Humboldt University Berlin and an affiliate at NYU's Information Law Institute. Paul's research focuses on law's impacts on data and internet governance, with a special focus on the governance of AI systems. His publications also address issues of European (public) law as well as human and fundamental rights law. Paul has taught courses on AI governance and German constitutional law. He has passed the first German legal state examination and holds an LL.M. from the European University Institute as well as the degree of Juriste Européen from the European Law School.

Stav Zeitouni (JSD Fellow)

Stav is a JSD candidate at NYU Law and visiting fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. She holds an LLM in Legal Theory from NYU, where she was a recipient of the David H. Moses Memorial Prize. Prior to her graduate studies, she received her undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) in law and psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and clerked in the Office of the Attorney General in Israel. Stav's dissertation deals with psychological conceptualizations of privacy and property and their connection to legal concepts, as well as the intersection of copyright and privacy.

Ngozi Nwanta (JSD Fellow)

Ngozi is a JSD student from Nigeria researching on governance of digital identifiable information in credit markets and their implications for financial inclusion and development. She holds an LLM from NYU Law School during which she worked on grassroot contestations involving digital identification schemes in West Africa as well as data governance platforms involving the use of blockchain as a trust architecture for biometric identification systems. Ngozi has worked with the Doing Business unit of the World Bank as an NYU IFD fellow. Prior to her graduate studies at NYU, she worked as a corporate and dispute resolution lawyer in Nigeria and received a Bachelor of Laws degree (first class honors) from the University of Nigeria.

Tomer Kenneth (JSD Fellow)
tomer.kenneth@law.nyu.edu

Tomer Kenneth is a JSD Candidate from Israel. He received an LL.M. in Legal Theory from NYU School of Law in 2019, where he was awarded the Dean’s Graduate Award. Before joining NYU, Tomer served as a Clerk for the Hon. Justice Salim Joubran, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Tomer completed his first law degree (LL.B., cum laude) from the Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya, Israel). He served as the Editor of IDC's Law and Business Law Review and held research and teaching assistant positions in various legal fields. Amongst others, Tomer worked with Professor Amnon Rubinstein as a research assistant and book-editor. Mr. Kenneth is a member of the Israeli Bar since 2017 and a JSD Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute since 2020. Tomer’s primary academic interests include democratic theories, jurisprudence, epistemology, public law, and law and technology. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Chasing Veritas: A Study of Political-Truths and How to Determine them.” It confronts legal and political challenges posed by the phenomenon of ‘fake news’ and ‘misinformation,’ and explores how democracies should determine the truths upon which political decisions are made.

Yijao Wang (JSD Fellow)

Yijiao Wang is a JSD candidate at NYU researching on IP rights related to AI-generated works. She holds an LL.M. in Legal Theory from NYU Law and an LL.B. from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include intellectual property theories, computational creativity of generative AI, and authorship in works created by artificial intelligence. During her LL.B she worked at Law, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (LITE) Lab on a collaborative project with FedEx Express on law and automation and together with LITE Lab won the 2022 International Industry Award for Legal Innovation from Corporate Legal Operations Consortium.

Nicholas Tilmes (Student Fellow Coordinator)

Nicholas is a JD candidate at NYU Law. His research interests include digital technology regulation and the normative justifications of algorithmic fairness methods. Prior to law school, he spent two years working as Program Manager and Research Assistant for the Center for Bioethics, focusing on the ethics of AI. In his 1L summer, he interned at the Federal Communications Commission. He holds a master’s degree in Bioethics from NYU and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Psychology from Cornell University.

Jacob Leiken (Student Fellow and Web Designer)

Jacob is a JD candidate at NYU Law, interested in global technology law. Before law school, he worked as a software engineer at Microsoft on the Windows Engineering System. There, he worked on the full stack of numerous services with an emphasis on developer operations. In his 1L summer, he interned in the Bureau of Internet and Technology at the Office of the New York Attorney General. He graduated from Brown University with an Sc.B. in Computer Science.

Cade Mallett (Student Fellow)

Cade Mallett is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law. Originally from Los Alamos, New Mexico, Cade received a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2020 from UCLA. After graduating, he worked on data-driven population health projects at a healthcare software company in Wisconsin, captained the Expunge Assist team of the Hack for Los Angeles civic volunteer group, and became a registered patent practitioner. Cade is currently a Desmarais Scholar and John Sexton Scholar of Law. While at NYU he hopes to pursue interests in open source technology, intellectual property, and digital infrastructure.

Stephanie Shim (Student Fellow)

Stephanie is a JD candidate at the NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, Stephanie’s work centered on patent clearance and litigation. She studied History and East Asian Studies at Stanford where she graduated with University Distinction. Stephanie also worked as a research assistant for the “Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) Litigation Database Project” at the Stanford Law School. Together with her research team, she co-authored a law journal article, grown out of this project, that expanded on a machine learning approach to patent clearance. Driven by her focus on issues surrounding human-computer interaction, privacy compliance, and legal tech, Stephanie is deeply interested in the spaces of technology and intellectual property law.

Jacob Park (Student Fellow)

Jacob Park is a JD candidate at NYU Law. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in political science. A tech enthusiast for over a decade, he has spent several years researching and applying various techniques to enhance his personal digital security and privacy. He came to law school to study intellectual property, privacy, and immigration law. His interests include surveillance technology, security/privacy threat modeling, and data breach notification laws.

Stephanie Chen (Student Fellow)

Stephanie is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, she worked for several years as a software engineer in the tech industry. Her interests include privacy, artificial intelligence, and platform governance. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. and M.S. in computer science. 

Cooper Aspegren (Student Fellow)

Cooper Aspegren is a JD Candidate at NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, he worked as a strategy consultant at Accenture, where he used data to recommend customer acquisition and operational improvement strategies for clients in healthcare, life sciences, technology, and consumer goods. He also supported research at the Center for Cybersecurity at the UC Berkeley School of Information into how technology companies disclose privacy risks in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley.

Talya Nevins (Student Fellow)

Talya Nevins is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law with an interest in consumer data privacy, state surveillance, and data governance. She graduated from Princeton University in 2018 with an A.B. in Near Eastern Studies. At NYU, she is a Joyce Lowinson scholar with the Institute for International Law and Justice and Co-President of the student advocacy group Rights over Tech.

Tien Hsin Sheu (Student Fellow)

Tien Hsin is an LL.M. candidate at NYU Law. Before coming to NYU, Tien Hsin served as an attorney practicing law in Taiwan for six years. She focuses on commercial litigation, corporate compliance and contract negotiation. She also worked as a research assistant for the “Natural Language Processing (NLP) Legal Playbook Project” at Big Science Workshop. Driven by her focus on issues surrounding legal tech, her interests include data privacy, surveillance, AI models of decision making and open-source technology.

JD Mireles (Student Fellow)

JD Mireles is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law, with research interests in data privacy, algorithmic governance, and the intersection of digital surveillance and criminal law. Prior to law school, they worked as a digital marketing analyst. They graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Political Science.

Kevin Xhebexhia (Student Fellow)

Kevin is an LLM candidate at NYU, who graduated in 2019 from the University of Brussels (ULB) with a degree of Law and in parallel from KULeuven with a degree in Economics. Prior to joining NYU, Kevin served as a dispute resolution attorney in Belgium and as an assistant at the University of Brussels. Kevin’s previous research focused on algorithms and automation of justice, with a focus on COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions), and its many ethical issues, such as racial bias caused by the data used to feed the algorithm. Kevin also served as a lecturer at the international seminar organized by the European Law Student Association (Brussels, February 2022) on AI & Law.

Rebecca Kahn (Student Fellow)

Rebecca Kahn is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law with interests in consumer data privacy and labor rights, the intersection of equity and algorithmic governance, and the application of behavioral science to policymaking. She previously worked in cybersecurity/IT for campaigns, as a legislative staffer in Congress, and for a nonprofit focused on reducing bias in AI that offers a certification in responsible AI governance. She graduated from Princeton University in 2018. At NYU, she is in the Furman Public Policy program and is a board member in the student group Rights over Tech.

Tanner Co (Student Fellow)

Tanner is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law, with interests spanning privacy, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and data governance. Prior to law school, he worked as a product manager at Nielsen, focusing on media research. At NYU Law, Tanner serves as a Board Member of Rights Over Tech, a student organization dedicated to supporting digital rights. He holds a B.S. from NYU’s Stern School of Business, with co-concentrations in marketing and statistics.

Jen Kim (Student Fellow)

Jen Kim is a JD candidate at NYU Law. Her research interests include government surveillance oversight, consumer data protection, and privacy compliance. Prior to NYU, she spent two years at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Special Victims Bureau, where she performed forensic analyses of digital devices and social media content. In her 1L summer, she clerked at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. She holds a B.A. in political philosophy, public policy, and law from the University of Virginia. 

Jerry Wu (Student Fellow)

Jerry is a LLM candidate at NYU School of Law. With a keen interest in privacy and data governance (especially the commercialization of data), he hopes to understand the inner workings of the current digital economy. Before joining NYU, Jerry graduated from Renmin University of China (RUC) Law School and received several honors and scholarships. He had also served in multiple law firms and corporations in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Inbar Cohen (Student Fellow)

Inbar Cohen is a LLM Candidate at NYU Law. Inbar received her first law degree and Master's degree (magna cum laude), specializing in Law & Technology, from the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to her graduate studies at NYU, Inbar served as a Clerk for the Hon. Justice Ofer Grosskopf, at the Supreme Court of Israel. She was the Senior Editor of Din U'Dvarim, Haifa Law Review, and held research and teaching assistant positions in various legal fields. Inbar has been a member of the Israeli Bar since 2021 and has worked as a litigator in the area of intellectual property in Israel. Inbar's primary academic interests include Information Law, Governance of AI, digital intellectual Property, and Privacy in a technology-driven age.

Valentina Salas (Student Fellow)

Valentina is a Corporate Law LL.M. candidate at NYU Law School. She studied her Law degree at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, and graduated with honors (summa cum laude). Valentina worked both as in-house counsel for a multinational company and as an associate at first-level international law firms. Her practice is mainly oriented to advising tech companies on data privacy, digital sales, consumer law and related matters. Recently she has also participated and advised in several M&A deals. At NYU she hopes to dive deeper into transactional and corporate matters and combine them with her knowledge in the tech-law field to address digital era legal issues with practical, creative, and innovative solutions.

Micah Musser (Student Fellow)

Micah Musser is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law, with interests in cybersecurity regulation, algorithmic governance, intellectual property, and antitrust. Prior to law school, he worked for three years as a research analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he wrote on topics including the economics of large language models in influence operations, the policy implications of security vulnerabilities in AI systems, and the technical drivers of AI progress. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University.

Roshan Menon (Student Fellow)

Roshan is an LLM candidate (Hauser Global Scholar) at the NYU School of Law. He is interested in studying cross-border data flows, and the regulation of non-personal data. Roshan also maintains an ancillary interest in digital identity systems, with a particular focus on the intersection of identity, privacy, and finance. Prior to NYU, Roshan worked with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. (SAMCo) – an IFLR1000: Top Tier firm based out of India. Roshan provided policy and regulatory counsel; his governmental mandates include advising on issues of artificial intelligence, digital asset governance, and GovTech.

Yeseul Do (Student Fellow)

Yeseul is a JD candidate at NYU Law. Her research interests include antitrust and data privacy regulation, especially surrounding children's privacy. Prior to law school, she worked as a high school special education teacher through Teach for America Hawaii. In her 1L summer, she interned as a Janet D. Steiger Fellow at the State of Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection. She holds a M.S. Ed in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Boston College.

Adele Tassart (Student Fellow)

Adele is a visiting student from Sciences Po Law School where she is pursuing a master’s degree in economic law. She graduated from Lille University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. Adele is particularly interested in the intersection of privacy and tech regulation and human rights, with a particular focus on the EU. While at NYU she hopes to study these topics from a comparative perspective and use the knowledge she acquires for a research project upon her return to France.

Li-Chin Chang (Student Fellow)

Li-Chin Chang is an LL.M. candidate at NYU School of Law with a profound interest in Privacy Law and Technology Law. Before joining NYU, she obtained her bachelor's degree and first master's degree in Taiwan. Following her graduation, she worked at a law firm for two years and subsequently spent another two years at a financial institution. Based on her prior experiences, she has observed a growing emphasis on privacy, especially in the context of emerging technologies, and she plans to focus her studies in these areas at NYU.

Julia Strack (Student Fellow)

Julia is an LL.M. candidate at NYU for the Competition, Innovation and Information Law Program, and is a recipient of the Dean's Graduate Award. She holds a Specialization in Business Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), where she also graduated in law with honors. Before joining NYU, she practiced law in her home country, where she coordinated complex litigation cases in the areas of intellectual property and digital law. She also advised several companies, including some of the largest Brazilian pharmaceutical industries, during the process of becoming compliant with the Brazilian Data Protection Regulation. Julia's dissertation for her latest specialization deals with the Liability of Streaming Platforms for Copyright Violations.

Neeta Maria Stephen (Student Fellow)

Neeta is an LLM candidate at the NYU School of Law. Her interests include human rights, particularly reproductive rights and access to reproductive health procedures. She is interested in understanding the interaction of the right of privacy with issues such as mass surveillance and discrimination as a consequence of personal data. Prior to joining NYU, Neeta interned with a data protection team at a technology oriented law firm to help develop privacy policies for firms and organizations.