People

Faculty Director

Katherine Strandburg 
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.

Research Director

Sebastian Benthall 

Dr. Sebastian Benthall is a Senior Research Fellow at the Information Law Institute, as well as a Research Scientist at the Information Law Institute. His work has been funded by the NSF, DARPA, Sloan Foundation, Future of Life Foundation, and the Microsoft Corporation. His research involves applications of computational economics and multi-agent systems techniques to problems of data protection and AI governance.

Student Leadership

Anthony Perrins (Student Fellow Coordinator)

Anthony Perrins is a JD Candidate at NYU Law. He is interested in advancing data privacy rights, with particular interests in government surveillance oversight and data security regulation. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as a paralegal at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, where he represented tenants facing eviction. He holds a B.A. in economics and international relations from The Ohio State University.

Tobit Glenhaber (Website Coordinator)

Tobit Glenhaber is a JD Candidate at NYU Law. He has a BS in Mathematics and History from MIT. While there, he developed an interest in privacy and data ownership, open source software, and antitrust in the tech sector. In his 1L summer he interned at the Office of the Rhode Island Attorney General in the Economic and Consumer Justice Unit.

2025-26 Participating Researchers

Faculty and Senior Research Fellows

Ignacio Cofone 
ignacio.cofone@nyu.edu

Ignacio is the Professor of Law & Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Law and Institute for Ethics in AI). His work centers on regulatory design and remedies for immaterial data and AI harms, such as privacy and discrimination. His book, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy (2024), for example, argues that AI requires restructuring privacy and data protection law based on duties of nonexploitation because basing these bodies of law on individual control has become ineffective. He is visiting NYU during Spring 2025.

Moritz Schramm 
moritz.schramm@nyu.edu

Moritz Schramm is a Research Scholar at Guarini Global Law & Tech, a Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. At NYU, he convenes the Guarini Colloquium on Legal Controls of Digital Corporations and teaches European Union law. His research explores global private and regulatory governance, with a particular focus on socio-legal perspectives. Moritz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Emulation of Courts in the Digital World: Platforms, the Oversight Board, and the Digital Services Act (CUP) and has published articles and book chapters across law and social sciences. He has received multiple international awards for his work and serves as an editor for Verfassungsblog and the European Journal of Legal Studies.

Neli Frost
neli.frost@worc.ox.ac.uk

Neli Frost is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She researches at the intersection of public (and international) law, technology, and democratic jurisprudence, with a particular interest in the ways in which digital and artificial intelligence technologies disrupt democratic principles, structures, and institutions. She received her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, she was a Hauser Global Fellow at NYU School of Law.

Omar Vasquez Duque 

Omar’s research applies behavioral insights to competition policy, business law, and the regulation of the digital economy. He has formal training in law, behavioral science, and econometrics. Before starting his doctoral studies at Stanford, he worked as a competition expert for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and as an antitrust enforcer at the Chilean Antitrust Agency. He also undertook a research visit at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy before enrolling at Harvard Law School as an LL.M. student. Omar’s research has appeared in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the UC SF Law Review (formerly Hastings Law Journal), the Maryland Law Review, among others. He has presented his research at leading law and economics and economic policy conferences, such as the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the main panel of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) Annual Meeting, and CRESSE. His research has been cited by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the OECD, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. It has also been featured by ProMarket, Barron’s, and Competition Policy International. Before moving to New York City, Omar was a lecturer at Stanford University and an academic fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Ira Rubinstein 
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.

Michal Shur-Ofry
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).

Angelina Fisher

Katja Langenbucher

Research Fellows

ILI Fellows

Nofar Kadosh

Nofar is a Fulbright Scholar and an LL.M. graduate in Legal Theory from NYU School of Law. Nofar’s primary research interest focuses on conceptualizing and theorizing the developing field of digital sexual offenses, especially in relation to image-based harm. Nofar completed her thesis under the supervision of Professors Katherine Strandburg and Michal Shur-Ofry on the mechanisms behind the non-consensual intimate images trade on Telegram, analyzing it through the lens of complex systems theory and proposing a new perspective on this phenomenon as “image trafficking” – the abuse of another's image.

Nofar received her LL.B. in Law, magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University. During her studies, she served as an editor of the Journal of Law & Social Change, and as a research assistant in the law faculty and at the Israel Internet Association. She completed her legal internship at the High Court of Justice Department in the State Attorney's Office. After her internship, she joined the Haruv Institute, where she researched the offense of child psychological abuse. Her article on the criminalization of non-consensual sexual digital photographs earned her an academic prize and was published in the Tel Aviv University Law Review.

Mimee Xu

Affiliated Fellows

Alon Jasper
alonjasper@gmail.com

Alon Jasper is a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC-funded Three Generations of Digital Rights (3GDR) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studies the relationships between law and technology through the concept of infrastructures, employing historical, quantitative, and doctrinal methods. Alon was previously a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU and holds a PhD in law from Tel Aviv University. 

Michael Beauvais

Michael Beauvais is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His dissertation explores a legally justified informational privacy interest of children from their parents. Beyond youth privacy, he is interested in how technologies and law structure and mediate interpersonal relationships. He also researches and publishes on privacy and data protection issues in biomedical research where he focuses on international data transfers and European data protection law.

His doctoral work is supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by a fellowship at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. 

Sevinj Novruzova

Mrs. Sevinj Novruzova is a Visiting Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at NYU Law School Information Law Institute. Her current project relates to Comparative analysis of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia data protection legal provisions and practices with reference to US Federal Data Protection Act from perspective of sustainable businesses.

She has more than 14 years’ experience in the legal and compliance contexts. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Khazar University. She has several publications in UK, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. Her recent book has been published in Ankara, Turkey under the name of Duty of Care of Banks in Electronic Banking. She is also contributor on corporate compliance issues to AMCHAM, Turkish Ethics and Integrity Society, Azerbaijan Ethics and Compliance Network, Corruption & Transparency Working Group of the Commission on Business Environment & International Ratings.

Mrs. Novruzova holds a PhD degree in Commercial Law from Selcuk University, Turkey and a master’s degree in international Private Law from Ankara State University, Turkey.

Stav Zeitouni 

Stav Zeitouni is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Private Law Theory at UC Berkeley. Her work examines the intersection of privacy and property from a law and psychology perspective, as well as propertization in information law more broadly. She holds a J.S.D. and an LL.M. in Legal Theory from NYU and an undergraduate degree in law and psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to her graduate studies, she clerked in the Office of the Attorney General in Israel.

Tomer Kenneth 
TKenneth@law.usc.edu

Dr. Tomer Kenneth is a visiting assistant professor at USC Gould School of Law, and an affiliated fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU School of Law. He studies decision-making about facts in law and politics, and his primary research areas include evidence, legal theory, political theory, and law and technology. Kenneth graduated from NYU Law with a JSD and a LLM (legal theory). His scholarship was published in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Harvard Journal on Legislation, and Duke Law Journal Online, among others. At the ILI, Kenneth focuses on the intersection of evidence law and innovative technologies.

Federica Fedorczyk 
ff2346@nyu.edu

Federica Fedorczyk is an Early Career Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (Institute for Ethics in AI). She obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Law, summa cum laude, from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, with a dissertation examining how the use of AI is transforming the criminal justice system. Prior to joining Oxford, she was an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at EURA.
Her main research interests include AI regulation and ethics; the intersection of AI and the criminal justice system; risks of emerging forms of digital authoritarianism; smart prisons and digital rehabilitation; and gender-based crimes and discrimination linked to technology.

Silvia A. Carretta 

Silvia A. Carretta is a joint doctoral candidate at the law faculty of Uppsala University (Sweden) and the Wallenberg Graduate School on AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanities and Society (WASP-HS). She is also a fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech (USA). 

Silvia’s research studies the accountability of artificial intelligence under the lens of private law and, in particular, the impact of algorithmic online content moderation on users’ fundamental rights. She regularly lectures in advanced courses at the law faculty and has several publications around her research interests (which include intellectual property law, law and technology, and private law issues connected to upcoming AI shifts in society).

As a scholar-practitioner, Silvia acts as Chief Legal Officer for Women in AI, a global do-tank working towards gender-inclusive AI. She has been a member of the Milan Bar Association since 2017. Silvia holds a Law degree and an LL.M. in Private International Law and Arbitration from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) as well as an LL.M. in European Intellectual Property Law from Stockholm University (Sweden).

Graduate Student Fellows

Ming Yi 

Ming is a JSD candidate from China. Her research focuses on the Governing Knowledge Commons framework and applying it to power sensitive issues. In general, she is interested in law and technology, law and society and commons theory. She holds an LL.M. from NYU Law and an LL.B. from the University of Hong Kong.

Yijiao Wang 
yijiao.wang@nyu.edu

Yijiao Wang is a JSD candidate at NYU. 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, philosophy of mind, and authorship in AI-assisted work. 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.

Murat Aybars Tunca

Affiliated Faculty

Helen Nissenbaum (Faculty Partner, PRG Founder, Cornell Tech)
helen.nissenbaum@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. 

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU)
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.

Jason Schultz (NYU)
jason.schultz@exchange.law.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.

Sunoo Park (NYU)
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.

Thomas Streinz (EUI)
thomas.streinz@law.nyu.edu

Thomas Streinz is Joint Chair in Law with interests in regulatory theory and regulatory institutions at the European University Institute’s Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence. His current research interests focus on digital governance and global law and technology, in particular the regulation of the global data economy and the governance of digital infrastructures. He leverages insights from the social sciences – in particular science and technology studies, infrastructure studies, media and communication studies, and (critical) data studies – for socio-techno-legal research. As an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University’s School of Law, Professor Streinz convened colloquia on the regulation of global digital corporations, taught courses on Global Data Law, and conducted interdisciplinary seminars on selected topics in Global Tech Law. Professor Streinz was the inaugural Executive Director of the Guarini Global Law and Tech initiative at NYU Law, where he remains a Senior Fellow.

Practitioner-in-Residence

Albert Fox Cahn 

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.

Student Fellows

Charles Levy

 

Charles Levy is a JD candidate at NYU Law with an interest in how law can be used to help promote and guide innovation as new technologies emerge. He graduated from Brown University with degrees in Computer Science and International and Public Affairs, and found the intersection of these fields incredibly elucidating as to how new technology has changed the political landscapes of countries around the world. Previously, he built a web-app dedicated to teaching art history where he weighed numerous ethical and legal questions regarding user privacy and emerging technology in order to build an effective product

Chloé Justin

 

Chloé is a LL.M. Candidate at NYU Law, with a special interest in the regulation of emerging technologies, more specifically in the life sciences field. Prior to joining NYU, Chloé worked as a lawyer in France, where she gained experience on the GDPR and intellectual property law. She is particularly interested in the use of AI in the medical field and the impact on data privacy for patients. Chloé graduated from the University of Tours with a Master's degree in international business law and biotechnology.

Elena Pastreich 

 

Elena is a JD candidate at NYU Law interested in how domestic privacy policies impact international partners and in the relationship between privacy, technology, and human rights. Prior to law school, she conducted policy research, designed pro bono programs for nonprofits and small businesses, and worked with asylum seekers and survivors of trafficking and domestic violence. She graduated from Tufts University in 2021. 

Josh Badzik

Josh Badzik is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, he worked in government and public services consulting at a large multinational firm. As a fellow in NYU Law's Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Program, Josh gained hands-on experience at a biotech startup in the Bay Area, navigating the intersection of law, privacy, and emerging technologies. He graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University with degrees in Economics and Public Policy. At NYU, he is an advanced clinician in the International Transactions Clinic.

Priyanka Sunjay

Priyanka is an LL.M. candidate at NYU Law, where she's a Dean's Graduate Scholar. Her interests lie in fintech, emerging technologies, data privacy, and consumer protection. Before joining NYU, she worked with big Indian law firms as an M&A attorney. She had a brief stint at Uber as a Secondee. She was also a product counsel at a financial services start-up, where she managed the legal aspects of product launches, entry into new business verticals, and compliance with sectoral laws. Further, she assisted start-ups launch new products, comply with data laws, and make submissions before policymakers. In addition, she conducted live classes on tech law issues on a leading Indian ed-tech platform. She graduated at the top of her class as a gold medalist with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law University, Jodhpur, India.

Sarah Wang

Sarah is a JD candidate at NYU Law with interests in consumer protection, platform governance, and emerging technology regulation. Before law school, she worked in Microsoft’s consumer marketing organization as a product marketing manager, and later at Microsoft Research managing communications for its AI for Science and AI for Health portfolios, where she worked closely with legal teams on issues including data privacy, health and biotechnology law, and AI ethics. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Communication Studies.

Sophie Liu

 

Sophie is a JD candidate at NYU Law. She received her B.A. in History and Asian Studies from Cornell University, alongside a minor in China and Asia-Pacific Studies. She also studied and became interested in information science. She previously interned at a boutique law firm specializing in patent law, and her interests lie in intellectual property law.

Tia Vaish

 

Tia Vaish is a 1L at New York University School of Law pursuing her JD. She is currently studying the application of law as a tool to promote the ethical growth of technology. Prior to joining NYU Law, she completed her undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus on artificial intelligence. 

Vanessa Sporne 

Vanessa Sporne first became interested in the connections between privacy, technology, and the law while studying the GDPR in Germany in 2019. For the past four years, she has been practicing as a technology disputes lawyer in Australia, where she defended Latitude and Medibank in civil penalty and class action proceedings arising from two of our country’s largest data breaches. She has also advised corporations on significant reforms to Australia’s Privacy Act 1988. More recently, She has become interested in the privacy ramifications of AI. Last year, Vanessa taught ‘AI Law’ at the University of Melbourne and undertook related research for the University’s Centre for AI and Digital Ethics

Yeseul Do 

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 

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.

Arna Wömmel

 

 Arna Wömmel is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a research associate in the German Research Foundation's graduate program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She is participating in the Visiting Scholars Program at Columbia Law School this term, and was previously a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Data Science Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of behavioral and experimental economics, algorithmic fairness, and human-machine interaction. She holds an M.S. in Business Economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Bayreuth. Prior to academia, Arna worked at a consulting firm in Berlin, where she advised international companies and government institutions on large-scale digital transformations.

Molly Pushner 

 

Molly is a JD candidate at NYU Law, interested in the intersection of data and the law. Before law school, she worked in data analytics as a federal government consultant as well as a data analyst in politics and at the New York Times. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S in Applied Economics and Management with a concentration in Business Analytics.

Carolina Barcelos

 Carolina Barcelos is a Master's student in Public Law at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil. She studies the right to delisting, data protection, and privacy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil, and completed an international mobility program at the University of Porto (U.Porto), Porto, Portugal. She is a researcher at the Human Rights Laboratory at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil (LabDH-UFU), and a member of the Study Group on Law and Technology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (DTec-UFMG).

Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas is a JD Candidate at NYU School of Law. His academic interests lie in telecommunications policy and antitrust law. Prior to law school, he worked as a legal analyst at a telecommunications boutique law firm researching privacy law developments at the federal and state level. In his 1L summer, he took part in the Federal Communications Bar Association Diversity Pipeline Program and worked at the Federal Communications Commission.  He received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 2021.

Alice Militaru

 

 Alice Militaru is a JD Candidate at NYU Law. She's particularly interested in the intersection of privacy law and public interest. Before pursuing her JD, Alice earned her B.S. from Rutgers University where she contributed to research on privacy and political science including Tracking the Trackers: Period Tracker Apps and Digital Privacy Following the Dobbs Decision, a paper focused on consumer privacy protections and reproductive rights. While at Rutgers, she completed an honors thesis entitled Measuring Your Worth: Personality Testing in Hiring to investigate the use of personality testing in hiring and the potential privacy implications involved. She's currently working on a project exploring public opinion on privacy using nationwide survey data. 

Naveen Rajan

 Naveen Rajan is a JD candidate at NYU Law with interests in privacy and antitrust regulation. Before law school, he worked as a cybersecurity consultant, where he assisted with digital forensic investigations and advised clients on regulatory and insurability concerns. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Will Shao 

Will is a JD candidate at NYU School of Law with interests in antitrust, international law, and emerging technologies. Before law school, Will completed a BA in Classics at Stanford University and an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. His master’s research focused on market dynamics in the AI semiconductor industry. Will also worked at the Ditchley Foundation in the UK as the Technology and Democracy Networks Lead, driving policy initiatives in semiconductors, generative AI, and other emerging technologies. 

Elyse Cox 

Elyse is a JD candidate at NYU Law, with interests in data privacy rights and antitrust law. Prior to law school, she earned her MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford.  Her research focused on locating the harms of surveillance capitalism in the landscape of anglophone analytic theory, as well as vulnerability, exploitation, and the moral limits of markets.

Adriana Monzon 

 

Adriana Monzon is a third-year law student. Last summer, she interned with the Democratic National Committee. Before starting law school in 2023, Adriana was a Paralegal in the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program where she focused on voting rights and elections.  Adriana graduated from New York University in 2021, receiving her B.A. in History, along with a double minor in Economic Policy and Peace and Conflicts Studies.

Jessie Gerdis

Jessie Gerdis is a JD candidate at NYU Law with an interest in how data privacy and consumer regulation shape the structure and incentives of emerging technology companies. Before law school, she worked in legal operations at a global venture capital firm and an equity crowdfunding startup, directly engaging with early-stage tech companies seeking capital. She also worked on consumer protection matters at the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Jessie holds a B.S. in Political Science and Finance from Northeastern University.

ILI Fellow Alums

• Nicholas Tilmes (Paul Weiss): 2023-2025
• Benjamin Sobel (U Wisconsin): 2023-2025
• David Stein (Vanderbilt): 2023-2025
• Katrina Geddes (Ohio State): 2023-2025
• Ngozi Nwanta (NYC Dept. of Consumers and Workers Protection): 2023-2025
• Amit Haim (Tel Aviv University): 2023-2025
• Nathalie Smuha (U Toronto): 2023-2025
• Paul Friedl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): 2021-2024
• Aniket Kesari (Fordham): 2021-2024
• Gabriel Nicholas (Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy): 2022-2024
• Elettra Bietti (Northeastern): 2022-2023
• Jiaying Jiang (University of Florida): 2021-2022
• Salome Viljoen (Michigan): 2019-2021
• Aaron Shapiro (UNC): 2019-2020
• Mark Verstraete (Seattle Univesity): 2018-2020
• Ashley Gorham (Hamilton): 2018-2019
• Mason Marks (FSU): 2018-2019
• Julia Powles (University of Western Australia): 2017-2018
• John Nay (Stanford): 2017-2018
• Yafit Lev-Aretz (Baruch College): 2015-2018
• Madelyn Sanfilippo (UIUC): 2016-2018
• Eli Siems: 2017-2019
• Ignacio Cofone (Oxford): 2017-2018
• Kiel Brennan-Marquez (UConn): 2015-2017
• Bilyana Petkova (Yale): 2016-2017
• Karen Levy (Cornell): 2014-2016
• Luke Stark (Western University): 2012-2016
• Daniel Susser (Cornell): 2015-2016
• Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam): 2013-2016
• Seda Guerses (TU Delft): 2013-2015
• Elana Zeide (University of Nebraska): 2013-2015
• Malte Ziewitz (Cornell): 2012-2014
• Nathan Newman (Lehman College): 2012-2014
• Heather Patterson: 2012-2014
• Martin French (Concordia University): 2012-2013
• Sophie Hood (Keker Van Nest & Peters): 2012-2013
• Sasha Romanosky (RAND Corporation): 2012-2013
• Andrew Selbst (UCLA): 2011-2012
• Solon Barocas (Microsoft Research): 2007-2012
• Roger Ford (UNH): 2011-2012
• Joseph Lorenzo Hall (the Internet Society): 2011-2012
• Dr. Tal Zarsky (University of Haifa): 2010-2011
• Kenneth Farrall: 2009-2011
• Finn Brunton (UC Davis): 2009-2010
• Alice E. Marwick (UNC): 2009-2010
• Vincent Toubiana (ARCEP): 2009-2010
• Elizabeth Stark (Aspen Institute): 2008-2009
• Philip Weiser (Colorado AG; University of Colorado): Fall 2008
• Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard): Spring 2008
• Michael Zimmer (Marquette): 2004-2007
• Niva Elkin-Koren (Tel Aviv University): 2004-2005
• Gaia Bernstein (Seton Hall): 2002-2003
• Alan Toner: 2001-2002