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Faculty Fellow
Helen Nissenbaum co-ordinates the Information Law
Institute's ITS Colloquium. A Professor in the
Department of Culture and Communication, she specializes in
social, ethical, and political dimensions of technology with a
focus on information technology. Her publications span the
topics of privacy, property rights, electronic publication,
accountability, the use of computers in education, and values
embodied in computer systems. She is author of Emotion and Focus (University of Chicago Press), co-editor (with D.J.
Johnson) of Computers, Ethics and Social Values (Prentice-
Hall) and (with M.E. Price) Academy & the Internet (Peter Lang).
She is a founding co-editor of the journal, Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer Academic Press). Grants from
the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation have
supported her work, including an interdisciplinary study of
human values in Web-browser security with Batya Friedman
and Edward Felten, and PORTIA, an ITR Collaborative Grant on
Sensitive Information in a Wired World.
Nissenbaum was a Member of the School of Social Science,
Institute for Advanced Study (2000-2001), served as Associate
Director of Princeton University's Center for Human Values,
and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study
of Language and Information at Stanford University. She holds
a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Witwatersand,
Johannesburg and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford
University.
Visiting Faculty Fellows
Ira Rubinstein is a newly appointed Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet profiling, electronic surveillance law , online identity, Internet security and software liability. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on numerous occasions. His most recent publication is "Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches," co-authored with Ron Lee and Paul Schwartz, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008). Prior to joining the ILI, he spent 17 years in Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1985. Rubinstein has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. He is a board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation and previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a Trustee of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation.
Philip Weiser is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research & Executive Director of Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School. Since arriving at the CU Law School and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (with which he has a joint appointment) in 1999, Professor Philip J. Weiser has worked to fortify CU's strength in telecommunications and technology law, establishing the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law and the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program. Professor Weiser writes and teaches in the areas of telecommunications and information policy, recently co-authoring Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2005) and Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2007). Prior to joining the CU faculty, Professor Weiser served as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice, advising him primarily on telecommunications matters. Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Weiser holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Katherine Strandburg
[Visited NYU 2007-2008]
Katherine Strandburg is visiting NYU from DePaul University College of Law, where she teaches patent law, cyberlaw, trademark and copyright law, and information privacy law. Her research interests are in patent law; science and technology policy; law and network science; social norm theory; and information privacy law. Since joining the DePaul faculty in 2002 she has published in the Wisconsin, Colorado, Connecticut, and Rutgers Law Reviews and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. She has also recently co-authored three law professor amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on patent issues, including briefs at the cert petition and merits stages of the KSR v. Teleflex case.
Professor Strandburg obtained her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1995 and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is an experienced litigator and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She currently serves on the Amicus Committee of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and was a member of the AAAS Working Group on Developing a Research Exemption to Intellectual Property Protections. She is also a member of the Privacy Task Force of the Chicago Bar Association.
Prior to her legal career, Professor Strandburg was a research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, having received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and done postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon. Her recent collaborative work returns to these roots, using a statistical physics approach to analyze the patent citation network. Results of that work have been published in both law and physics journals.
Jonathan Zittrain
[Visited NYU Spring 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He was co-counsel with Lawrence Lessig in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which challenged the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
Zittrain co-founded Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. With students, he began Chilling Effects, a web site that tracks and archives legal threats made to Internet content producers. Google now sends its users to Chilling Effects when it has altered its search results at the behest of national governments. Zittrain performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002, and now as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a study of Internet filtering by national governments, "Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering."
His book about the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC, "The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It," will be available in spring 2008 from Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license. Papers may be found at http://www.jz.org
Non-Faculty Fellows
Solon Barocas
Solon Barocas is a doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He was previously a Program Associate at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he helped administer major research initiatives on intercultural contact, social inequality, and the social and political consequences of the war on terror. Earlier, he served as Deputy Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, housed at the London School of Economics, where he also obtained his MSc in International Relations. His master's thesis, "De/re/coding Security in 'Societies of Control:' Data-mining as Political Practice," was recently published in a special issue of the St Antony's International Review on "The Internet: Power and Governance in a Digitised World," which he also presented at a related conference co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Barocas graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art-Semiotics and International Relations. At the University's Watson Institute for International Studies, he worked for over two years on the Information, Technology, War, and Peace Project.
Elizabeth Stark is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, where she founded the Harvard Free Culture group. She serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting technological freedom and access to culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Advocates for Human Rights on new media and as a founding member of the Anti-Torture Group. Elizabeth conducts research for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has served as a Teaching Fellow for courses in Cyberlaw, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She has collaborated with organizations such as Creative Commons, iCommons, the Free Software Foundation, and the One Laptop per Child project. Elizabeth has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.
Administrator
Nicole Arzt
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Room 336
New York, NY 10012-1066
Phone: 212-998-6013
Fax: 212-995-4760
Email: arztn@juris.law.nyu.edu
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