Technology Law & Policy Clinic

Technological advances are driving greater social, economic, and political change—from access to information, health care, and entertainment to increased surveillance by law enforcement agencies to impacts on the environment, education, and commerce. These advances, however, raise increasingly critical and complex questions about privacy, consumer rights, free speech, and intellectual property.

The Technology Law and Policy Clinic is a semester-long, 6-credit course that focuses on the representation of individuals, nonprofits, and consumer groups who are engaged with these questions from a public interest point-of-view. It involves a mixture of fieldwork and seminar discussion ranging from technology law and policy to the ethical challenges of representing public-interest organizations.

Learn More About Recent Clinic Projects

• ACLU, EFF, and Knight First Amendment Institute: X Corp. Can’t Weaponize Social Media Platform Terms of Service to Bypass First Amendment Protections for Speech in the Public Interest
• ACLU to the DOJ and DHS: Policing Technology Cannot Go Unchecked
• Are Annoying Emails Worth Defending? These NYU Law Students Think So.
• The Copyright Counseling Team Helps Clients Take Advantage of Fair Use and Public Domain
• First Amendment and Internet Law Scholars Urge the Ninth Circuit to Protect the Right to Know How Social Media Companies Moderate Content
• NAACP to the D.C. Circuit: Nobody Should Have to Pay to Read the Law
• NYU’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Urge the 4th Circuit to Stop Geofence Privacy Abuses
• NYU’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic and EPIC Urge CFPB to Protect Consumers from Abusive Fintech Practices
• Tech Policy Experts at NYU, UCLA, and USC Call On CPPA to Protect Personal Data Against GenAI
• Unless you live in one of five states, you have limited legal recourse if someone makes a pornographic deepfake of you. NYU Law students are working with the CCRI to change that.