A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe; J.D., Harvard
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Professor Cohen teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms, and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions. She is the author of Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012), and numerous articles and book chapters, and she is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2020). She is a faculty co-director of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy, a faculty advisor of the Center on Privacy and Technology, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Cohen was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She was law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
"The Snowden disclosures, 10 years on," coverage in iapp, June 28, 2023, featuring Professor Julie Cohen.
"Most consumers want data privacy and will act to defend it," coverage in IAPP, March 22, 2023, featuring Professor Julie Cohen.
"Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court," coverage in The New Yorker, February 12, 2021, featuring Professor Julie Cohen.
"The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19," a piece co-authored by Professors Julie E. Cohen & Laura Moy, appearing in Brookings TechStream, June 17, 2020.