"Potential Supreme Court clash looms over copyright issues in generative AI training data," coverage in Venture Beat, September 6, 2023, featuring Adjunct Professor Marc Rotenberg.
LL.M., Georgetown; A.B., Harvard; J.D., Stanford
Professor Rotenberg is the founder and president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), a global organization focused on emerging challenges associated with Artificial Intelligence. He serves as an expert advisor on AI policy to many organizations including the Council of Europe, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Bar Association, the Global Partnership on AI, the OECD, and UNESCO. In 2021 he was elected to the European Law Institute. His forthcoming casebook is The Law of Artificial Intelligence (West Academic 2025).
Professor Rotenberg co-founded the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an independent public interest research organization in Washington, DC, and coauthored leading casebooks on privacy law with Anita L. Allen, Emilio Cividanes, Paul Schwartz, and Daniel Solove. He is on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including The Journal of AI Law and Regulation. ). His articles and commentaries have appeared in the Economist, Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard International Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the New York Times, the OECD Observer, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and Tech Policy Press, among others.
Professor Rotenberg has testified before the US Congress on more than 60 occasions. He has also spoken before the European Parliament several times, at judicial conferences many times, and given invited lectures in more than 70 countries. Professor Rotenberg has authored more than 100 amicus briefs for cases raising novel privacy and civil liberties issues for federal and state courts, including thirty amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Rotenberg was a founding member of the Aspen Institute AI Policy Roundtable, and has served on advisory panels for the American Bar Association Section on Criminal Justice, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Working Group on Data Protection (IWGDP), the National Academies of Science (NAS), the Organization of American States (OAS), and others. He is a former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which established and manages the .ORG domain.
His current research projects are with the American Law Institute (Principles of the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence), the American Society for International Law (The Governance of AI), the International Bar Association (AI and the Legal Profession), the OECD (AI Expert Group; AI, Data Protection, and Privacy), and TU Wien (Digital Humanism).
At Stanford Law School, Marc Rotenberg was Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, President of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation (SPILF), and research assistant for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. After law school, he served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, specializing in law and technology. Professor Rotenberg is a member of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts bar, and the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, First Circuit, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Fourth Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Professor Rotenberg is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has received several awards and honors, including the World Technology Award in Law, the American Lawyer Award for Top Lawyers Under 45, the ABA Cyberlaw Excellence Award, the Norbert Weiner Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, and the Vicennial medal from Georgetown University for 20 years of distinguished service.
"How The FTC Could Slow OpenAI’s ChatGPT," coverage in Forbes, April 14, 2023, featuring Adjunct Professor Marc Rotenberg.
"Our Privacy Nightmare and What Can Be Done About It," an interview with Adjunct Professor Marc Rotenberg, executive director, Electronic Privacy Information Center, appearing in Newsweek, October 24, 2019.
"How Google Influences the Conversation in Washington," coverage by the Wired, March 13, 2019, mentioning Adjunct Law Professor Marc Rotenberg.