Ari E. Waldman

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Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, a leading authority on law and technology, joined Northeastern University’s faculty in 2020 as Professor of Law and Computer Science with a joint appointment at the School of Law and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He directs the School of Law’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC). Professor Waldman studies asymmetrical power relations created and entrenched by law and technology, with particular focus on privacy, online harassment, free speech and the LGBTQ community.

Professor Waldman is a widely published scholar, including two books, Privacy As Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Inside the Information Industry (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021), and more than 25 articles published in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including Washington University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Indiana Law Journal and Law & Social Inquiry. He also written for the popular press, publishing in The New York Times, Slate, New York Daily News and The Advocate, among others.

Professor Waldman has won numerous awards, fellowships and research grants for his scholarship. He was named one of 2020’s Top Fifty Thinkers by Prospect Magazine, alongside heads of state, leading social justice advocates and renowned scholars. Professor Waldman won the Best Paper Award at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference twice, in 2017 and 2019, the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award in 2019, and the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award in 2016 and 2019. He gave the 2018 Deirdre G. Martin Memorial Lecture on Privacy at the University of Ottawa in 2018. And he was elected to the American Law Institute in 2019. In 2019, he was awarded a Belfer Fellowship from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Democracy and Technology for research into technology-facilitated intimate partner violence. In 2020, the Chief Judge of the State of New York appointed Professor Waldman to a special commission on reimagining the future of the courts in a post-Covid world.

He is also the founder of @Legally_Queer, a social media project that educates the public about the history, present and future of LGBTQ freedom. Providing accessible summaries and context to LGBTQ cases and laws decided or enacted “on this date in history,” Legally Queer seeks to engage both the LGBTQ community and the general public in the role of the courts in equality and social justice.

Professor Waldman was previously the Microsoft Visiting Professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy and visiting professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and served as a professor of law at New York Law School, where he was the founding director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology and founded the Institute for CyberSafety, a research and clinical program helping victims of online harassment obtain justice. He has also served as a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School and Fordham University School of Law. He clerked for Judge Scott W. Stucky at the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He holds a PhD in sociology from Columbia University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB magna cum laude, from Harvard College.