About ITLP

Policy at the speed of tech


Driving research and analysis of new and emerging technologies to ensure they are developed, implemented and regulated in socially beneficial, equitable, and accountable ways.

Our Team

Michael Karanicolas

Executive Director


Michael has ten years of experience in civil society, working projects connected to freedom of expression, transparency, and digital rights.

Mark McKenna

Faculty Co-director


Professor Mark P. McKenna teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and privacy law.

John Villasenor

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.

Barbara Chen

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.

Alexandra Mata

Program Coordinator


Alexandra is a seasoned administrator with several years of experience within higher ed institutions.

Melodi Dincer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Melodi Dincer is a tech justice lawyer with expertise in data privacy, AI policy, and resisting biometric surveillance.

She is also interested in tech law and policy clinics as a hub for students to explore transformative tech law …

Alessia Zornetta

Student Researcher & SJD Candidate


Alessia is particularly interested in technology and its implications with the law.

Nikita Aggarwal

Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Nikita researches and teaches in the areas of financial regulation, law and technology, and consumer law.

Affiliated Faculty

Clarice Aiello

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering


Clarice is an expert on nanosensors harnessing room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments.

Alex Alben

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.

Richard L. Hasen

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.

Achuta Kadambi

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science


Research and Teaching Interests: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning, Medical Devices

Jerry Kang

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.

Prineha Narang

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

Neil W. Netanel

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.

   

Ted Parson

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.

Nanyun (Violet) Peng

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

Courtney Radsch

Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Dr. Radsch’s research and work are informed by a commitment to human rights and ensuring the sustainability of independent media.

Andrew Selbst

Assistant Professor of Law


Selbst’s research examines the relationship between law, technology, and society.

Xiyin Tang

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.

   

Lixia Zhang

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science


My mission is to help the Internet grow.

Sanford Williams

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.

   

Yuan Tian

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering


Professor Tian’s interests include security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, machine learning and human-computer interaction.

Eugene Volokh

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.

Mark Verstraete

Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Mark's research assesses how emerging technology and the information society reshape private law concepts.

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