Clinic Faculty & Staff
Clinic Director
Professor Laura Moy(This link opens in a new tab) is the Director of Georgetown Law’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic. She is also a Faculty Advisor to Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology(This link opens in a new tab) and Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy(This link opens in a new tab).
As a policy expert, Professor Moy has written, spoken, and advocated before agencies and Congress on consumer privacy, law enforcement surveillance, data security, device portability, copyright, and net neutrality. Her current research interests include how technology tools are used in the criminal legal system, and how consumer privacy protections may be leveraged to ensure private information is not used in ways that perpetuate and exacerbate discrimination and other societal ills.
Prior to coming to Georgetown, Professor Moy worked on technology policy issues at New America and Public Knowledge. She completed her B.A. at the University of Maryland, her J.D. at New York University School of Law, and her LL.M. at Georgetown. Professor Moy was a teaching fellow in the Communications & Technology Law Clinic from 2011–2013, and guest director of the clinic in 2016.
Graduate Fellows
Iltaff Bala is a third-year clinical teaching fellow at the Communications and Technology Law Clinic.
Prior to joining the clinic, Iltaff received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and her B.A. in Epidemiology from The University of Rochester.
Iltaff is passionate about using the law to uplift historically marginalized communities. During law school, Iltaff was the President of the Black Law Students Association, and worked with student organizers across the country as part of the Justice Initiative. She was the inaugural Sherwin Siy fellow at Public Knowledge, a DC based Technology public-interest policy non-profit. She was also a fellow at the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA) at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society where she focused on racial justice issues at the intersections of the law, technology, and the First Amendment. Iltaff also worked as a Volunteer Summer Law Clerk at Public Counsel, the nation’s largest provider of pro-bono legal services.
Prior to law school, Iltaff held roles such as an Emergency Medical Technician, a Diversity workshop instructor, public health researcher, and more.
Catherine Ferri is a first year clinical teaching fellow at the Communications and Technology Law Clinic.
Catherine received her JD from the University of Colorado Law School in 2024 and her BA in English and Spanish from Colgate University in 2020. During law school, she was a Casenote and Comments Editor on the University of Colorado Law Review and a teaching assistant in both Legislation and Regulation and Telecommunications Law and Policy.
Catherine is passionate about advocating for digital rights, particularly those of minors, and access to information. She published her student note on e-book bans and the right to information in the Stanford Technology Law Review. She interned with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, where she focused on how online speech and access to information intersect with minors’ rights and the rights of marginalized groups. She was a student attorney in Colorado Law’s Technology Law Clinic, focusing on accessibility issues online, and worked closely with library rights organizations to advocate against book bans and a minors’ right to read. Catherine comes to Georgetown from a clerkship with Judge Kea W. Riggs of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Prior to law school, Catherine served as a homeless services case manager for students grades pre-K through 12th and as an interpreter for minors seeking asylum.
Clinic Manager
Edwin Rodas serves as the office manager for two clinics, iPIP and the Communications and Technology Law Clinic. He handles the day-to-day administrative operations for the smooth running of the clinic.