Nikita Aggarwal
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nikita researches and teaches in the areas of financial regulation, law and technology, and consumer law.
The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy is a collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the Samueli School of Engineering whose mission is to foster research and analysis to ensure that new technologies are developed, implemented and regulated in ways that are socially beneficial, equitable, and accountable.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nikita researches and teaches in the areas of financial regulation, law and technology, and consumer law.
Communications Lead
Barbara is a veteran communications professional with multi-disciplinary, mission-driven experience in higher ed, public sector, civic engagement and social justice organizations.
Executive Director
Michael has ten years of experience in civil society, working projects connected to freedom of expression, transparency, and digital rights.
Program Coordinator
Alexandra is a seasoned administrator with several years of experience within higher ed institutions.
Faculty Co-director
Professor Mark P. McKenna teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and privacy law.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Radsch’s research and work are informed by a commitment to human rights and ensuring the sustainability of independent media.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mark's research assesses how emerging technology and the information society reshape private law concepts.
Faculty Co-Director
Professor Villasenor’s work addresses the intersection of technology, law, and policy, with a focus on topics including digital communications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy.
Student Researcher & SJD Candidate
Alessia is particularly interested in technology and its implications with the law.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Clarice is an expert on nanosensors harnessing room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments.
Lecturer in Law
Alex Alben teaches Privacy, Data & Cybsersecurity at the UCLA School of Law. He has previously taught Internet Law and Privacy courses at both UCLA and the University of Washington law school. For most of his career, Alex served as a senior executive for pioneering Internet companies RealNetworks and Starwave Corporation, where he created new digital media products that enabled the distribution of video and music on the Internet and worked with industry groups to devise new content distribution models.
Professor of Law and Political Science
Professor Richard L. Hasen is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Research and Teaching Interests: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning, Medical Devices
Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor Kang's teaching and research interests include civil procedure, race, and communications. On race, he has focused on the nexus between implicit bias and the law, with the goal of increasing "behavioral realism" in legal analysis.
Associate Professor and Howard Reiss Chair in Physical Sciences
Before starting on the Harvard faculty in 2017, Dr. Narang was an Environmental Fellow at HUCE, and worked as a research scholar in condensed matter theory in the Department of Physics at MIT. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech
Pete Kameron Professor of Law
Neil Netanel teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, free speech, international intellectual property, and media and the future of democracy.
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law
Parson studies international environmental law and policy, the societal impacts and governance of disruptive technologies including geoengineering and artificial intelligence, and the political economy of regulation.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Professor Peng's research goals aim to build robust and generalizable Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools that lower the communication barriers and enable AI agents to become companions for humans
Assistant Professor of Law
Selbst’s research examines the relationship between law, technology, and society.
Assistant Professor of Law
Xiyin Tang is an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She has previously served as a lead counsel for Facebook and an associate at Mayer Brown LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, where she worked on a variety of transactional and litigation matters in the technology, media, and entertainment sectors.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Tian’s interests include security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, machine learning and human-computer interaction.
Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law
Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law.
Lecturer in Law
Sanford S. Williams is a Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law. and will teach Lawyering in Administrative Agencies - Current Issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He has worked at the FCC since 1999, and is currently both a Special Advisor to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and a Deputy Managing Director of the FCC.
The Institute for Technology, Law and Policy is a collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the Samueli School of Engineering whose mission is to foster research and analysis to ensure that new technologies are developed, implemented and regulated in ways that are socially beneficial, equitable, and accountable.
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