Katherine Strandburg

Katherine Strandburg concentrates her teaching and research in the areas of information privacy law, law and technology, patent law and innovation policy. Her scholarship considers how the law in these areas should reflect the importance of collaboration and social interactions and respond to technological change. Her legal analysis is informed by studies of knowledge commons governance and user innovation. She is the Faculty Director of the interdisciplinary NYU Information Law Institute, focuses on producing high quality scholarship and mentoring researchers and students interested in privacy, AI and related topics. She co-leads (with Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Madelyn Sanfilippo) the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons and is co-editor of the Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons book series. She was also co-PI (with Sebastian Benthall, Erez Hatna, and Joshua Epstein) on the NSF grant DASS: Agent Based Modeling at the Boundary of Law and Software. 

Professor Strandburg obtained her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1995 and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to her legal career, Professor Strandburg was a research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, having received her PhD from Cornell University in 1984 and conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon. She was a visiting faculty member of the physics department at Northwestern University from 1990 to 1992. After law school and before coming to NYU, she was a faculty member at DePaul University College of Law and an attorney with the law firm Jenner & Block.