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.

Thomas Streinz (Faculty Fellow)
thomas.streinz@law.nyu.edu

Thomas Streinz is the Executive Director of 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 where he convenes the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations and teaches courses on Global Data Law and Global Tech Law. His research interests include global data/tech law, international economic data law, and global digital infrastructure governance. He co-edited Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration (CUP 2021) and other recent publications include Confronting Data Inequality, The Beijing Effect: China’s ‘Digital Silk Road’ as Transnational Data Governance, and the Evolution of European Data Law.

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. 

Moritz Schramm (Faculty Fellow)
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.

Nathalie Smuha (Faculty Fellow)
nathalie.smuha@nyu.edu

Nathalie A. Smuha is a legal scholar and philosopher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, where she examines legal and ethical questions around AI and digital technologies. She is also Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and an affiliate member of Guarini Global Law & Tech. Her research and teaching focuses particularly on AI’s impact on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. She is the author of Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rule of Law (CUP, 2024), and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of AI. Her work has been the recipient of several awards. In addition, she regularly advises governments and international organizations on AI policy. Previously, she worked at the European Commission, where she coordinated the work of the High-Level Expert Group on AI and contributed to Europe’s AI strategy. She is also a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI and acted as a scientific expert in the Council of Europe’s (Ad Hoc) Committee on AI.

Sunoo Park (Faculty Fellow)
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.

David Stein (Faculty Affiliate, Northeastern University)

Stein is an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University. He studies how law and technology influence each other. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was an ILI Fellow and a research scholar at the Guarini Institute for Global Law and Tech. Before that, he spent a decade in the tech industry. He has a JD from NYU, and an MEng and SB from MIT.

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)

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.

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.

Omar Vasquez Duque (ILI Affiliate)

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.

Michael Beauvais (ILI Affiliate)

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. 

Ben Sobel (ILI Affiliate)

Ben Sobel is a lawyer, a scholar of information law, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech in New York City and affiliate scholar at the NYU Information Law Institute. His work examines how law and technology construct legal significance out of raw information.

Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He previously served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David Barron and Judge Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and to Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also served as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Ben’s scholarship has been cited in briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, a copyright treatise, and the 2024 Economic Report of the President. His publications are available on his homepage, bensobel.org.

Sevinj Novruzova (ILI Affiliate)

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.

Silvia A. Carretta (ILI Affiliate)

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).

Neli Frost (ILI Affiliate)
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.

Stav Zeitouni (ILI Affiliate)

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 (ILI Affiliate)
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 (ILI Affiliate)
ff2346@nyu.edu

Federica Fedorczyk is a Postdoctoral Emile Noël Fellow at NYU and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at EURA (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa). She works on AI regulation and ethics. At NYU, she is critically analysing the European AI Act, focusing on potential top-down misuse of AI by governments and exploring innovative approaches for a democratization of AI. Her primary research interests include the intersection between AI and democracy, the innovative concept of smart prisons and digital rehabilitation, as well as gender-based crimes and gender discrimination.

She recently obtained a Ph.D. in Criminal law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. In her dissertation ‘Artificially Intelligent Criminal Justice? A policy oriented critical plea’ she investigated how the use of AI is transforming the criminal justice system and the risks of new forms of digital authoritarianism. She has been Visiting Ph.D. Researcher at Fordham Law School in New York City (2023) and Doctoral Research Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg (2024), where she was awarded a Scholarship for her research project. In addition to her academic activities, Federica is a lawyer and has also served as a legal trainee at the Avvocatura Generale dello Stato and as a judicial clerk at the Criminal Public Prosecutor Office, where she was part of the anti-violence pool specialized in crimes against women, children, and other vulnerable victims.

Misa Scognamiglio (ILI Affiliate)

Misa Scognamiglio is a PhD student at the University of Siena. She graduated summa cum laude in Law from Roma Tre University with a dissertation on punitive damages. Her doctoral research focuses on algorithmic discrimination and the remedies to deal with discrimination based on ethnicity, sex, religion, age, disability, etc.

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.

Yijiao Wang (JSD Fellow)
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.

Ming Yi (JSD Fellow)

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.

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 at the NYU 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Arna Wömmel (Student Fellow)

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 (Student Fellow)

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 (Student Fellow)

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).

Nofar Kadosh (Student Fellow)

Nofar is a Fulbright Scholar and an LL.M. candidate in Legal Theory at NYU School of Law. Her research interests include modeling consent for digital regulation implications, with a particular focus on the criminalization of non-consensual sexual digital offenses. 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 worked 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, where she assisted in crafting the State's response to legal petitions concerning governmental acts and regulations. 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.

Jerome David (Student Fellow)

Jerome is a JD candidate at the NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, he studied Mechanical Engineering and Classical Studies at the University of Florida. During this time, he was a chassis/ergonomics engineer for the university's formula motorsports team, where he was involved in the implementation of data collection devices. Jerome is primarily interested in the fields of technology, antitrust, and patent law.

Nirali Sanghavi (Student Fellow)

Nirali is an LL.M. candidate at NYU Law, focusing her studies on information privacy and data laws. Before pursuing her LL.M., she gained experience as an attorney representing clients in the media and technology sectors, and served as an in-house counsel for a Web3-based startup. Her expertise includes advising on transactions and compliances related to data privacy, virtual assets, gaming, and e-commerce laws. Nirali's research focuses on the sustainable use of data and emerging technologies in the administration of social welfare policies and the protection of human rights.

Shreyas Iyer (Student Fellow)

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 (Student Fellow)

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. 

Marco Germanò (Student Fellow)

Marco is an LL.M. candidate at NYU School of Law and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the transnational regulation of emerging technologies, international economic data law, and the role of the Global South in shaping digital governance frameworks. Before attending NYU, Marco earned master's degrees from Peking University in China and the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He has also held visiting research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Marco currently serves as a Graduate Editor at the Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP) and as a legal advisor to a permanent mission at the United Nations.

Naveen Rajan (Student Fellow)

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.

Anthony Perrins (Student Fellow)

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 (Student Fellow)

Tobit Glenhaber is a JD Candidate at NYU Law. He has a SB 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.

Yujia Wu (Student Fellow)

Yujia Wu is an LL.M. candidate at NYU School of Law as a recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Award. Her primary areas of interest include international law, technology law and its intersection with financial law and global financial development. Yujia graduated as valedictorian from Xiamen University in China where she earned a Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Economics in mathematical finance dual degree. Yujia later completed her Master of Laws at Renmin University of China. Before attending NYU, Yujia practiced law in areas of data protection compliance, financial regulations, banking and secured transactions. Yujia currently serves as an editor of the NYU Journal of Law and Business and is involved in NYU’s Guarini Externship: Global Legal Practice in Digital Society.

Will Shao (Student Fellow)

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. 

Yuting Yu (Student Fellow)

Yuting Yu is a LL.M. candidate at NYU School of Law with particular interest in the intersection of technology and business. Her research interests include data privacy, regulation of emerging technologies, and its intersection of global financial development. Before joining NYU Law, Yuting practiced law in areas of data compliance, financial regulations, derivatives and capital markets. Also, she gained practical experience in assisting several NGOs in social innovation and public interest matters. She holds a LLB degree from Beijing Jiaotong University in China.

Reeneth Santos (Student Fellow)

Reeneth is an LL.M. candidate in Competition, Innovation, and Information Law in NYU Law. Prior to joining NYU, she clerked in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and has worked as a private practitioner, where she assisted and advised foreign clients on local data privacy laws and compliance, and their connection, if any, with the data privacy framework of the clients' home jurisdictions. Reeneth also had a brief stint in a local adtech startup, acting as its legal counsel and data protection officer. Her research interests include the intersection between competition and data privacy in the regulation of digital platforms, targeted advertising through profiling, processing of personal data by data brokers, among others. Reeneth has a J.D. degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, and graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in Broadcast Communication from the University of the Philippines.

Elyse Cox (Student Fellow)

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.