International Journal of Communications Law & Policy

Prof. Beth Simone Noveck
E-mail: bnoveck (AT) nyls (DOT) edu

Beth Simone Noveck, Professor of Law, is director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. She also directs the Democracy Design Workshop, an interdisciplinary “do tank” dedicated to deepening democratic practice through technology design. Professor Noveck teaches in the areas of e-government and e-democracy, intellectual property, innovation, and constitutional law. A founding fellow and project director of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, she concentrates her research and design on information and technology law and policy with a focus on the intersection between technology and civil liberties. Professor Noveck is the founder of the annual conference “The State of Play: Law & Virtual Worlds,” cosponsored by New York Law School, Harvard, and Yale Law School. Professor Noveck is a founder of Bodies Electric LLC, developer of the Unchat software for realtime structured and democratic group deliberation in cyberspace. She is a member of the Legal Expert Network of the Institute for the Study of the Information Society and Technology (Insites) at the Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, a member of the editorial board for First Monday (www.firstmonday.org), I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, and of the advisory board of the International Journal for Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP). She is a member of the advisory board of the Nanyang Technical University Centre on Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) in Singapore, where she visited as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Professor Noveck is coeditor of the book series Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society (NYU Press). In addition to publishing and speaking widely on the subject, Professor Noveck has taught electronic democracy as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and as part of the faculty of the Internet Law Program (ILAW) at Harvard Law School. Formerly a telecommunications and information technology lawyer practicing in New York City, Professor Noveck graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor and Master of Arts. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. After studying as a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow at Oxford University, she earned a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright grant.