Amanda Levendowski Tepski is a Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP, pronounced eye-pip) Clinic, which produces creative legal and sociotechnical work for justice-minded artists, nonprofits, and coalitions. Her research has informed international discourse and Clinic matters about face surveillance, biased AI systems, secret surveillance tools, nonconsensual intimate imagery, and library lawyering. Her scholarship has appeared in leading law journals, and her work has been covered by 60 Minutes, 99% Invisible, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, and the US Copyright Office, as well as supported by fellowships with Gender+ Justice and Center for Transnational Legal Studies. In 2021, Public Knowledge recognized her as a 20/20 Visionary, one of twenty future leaders in technology policy.

Her forthcoming book, How Lawyers Can Shape Good Technologies (U. Cal. Press 2027), establishes lawyers’ duty of “sociotechnical competency” and encourages lawyers to consider a full SLATE of issues—an acronym for sustainability, labor, accessibility, transparency, and equity—raised by technologies like AI. Her first book, Feminist Cyberlaw (U. Cal. Press 2024,), an open-access anthology co-edited with Meg Leta Jones, explores how gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class shape cyberspace and the laws that govern it.

Professor Tepski also advises the Disabled Law Students Association, the Office of Accessibility Services, and the Accommodations Committee on strategies to support disabled students. Professor Tepski also creates perfumes, poems, and prints inspired by her research. Her perfume, World Wide Web, was the first fragrance to be certified by the Open Source Hardware Association. Professor Tepski’s poems have appeared in Gargoyle and Canyon Voice. Her letterpress print, librarians warned us, received the People’s Choice Award and was selected for the juried Press On exhibition.

While teaching at Georgetown Law, Professor Tepski was selected as a Visiting Summer Privacy Institute Professor at Maine Law, where she designed an immersive course using surveillance video games and simulated lawyering exercises to teach privacy justice. She joined Georgetown from NYU Law, where she co-taught the Technology Law and Policy Clinic. She previously practiced IP, privacy, and technology law in New York. Professor Tepski developed her BA in Publishing, Copyright, and Technology at NYU, summa cum laude, where she was a Mock Trial National Champion and two-time All-American. She earned her JD from NYU Law, where she was awarded the Walter J. Derenberg Prize for copyright law and nominated to the Order of the Barristers.