Guarini Global Law & tEch team
BENEDICT KINGSBURY | Faculty Director
Benedict Kingsbury has been Faculty Director of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies since its founding in 2018. As well as overseeing NYU's Law Abroad and global moot court programs, since he heads the Guarini Global Law & Tech initiative launched in 2018, and convening with Professors Joseph Weiler and Thomas Streinz the regular Guarini Colloquium on Regulation of Global Digital Corporations, Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He has served as Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) since its founding in 2002. His major current projects focus on large scale global ordering such as TPP and the Belt & Road Initiative (Megareg); physical, digital, and informational infrastructure (Infrareg); and global data/tech law. His research projects on global governance have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Email: benedict.kingsbury[at]nyu.edu
MORITZ ALFRED SCHRAMM | Adjunct Professor & Affiliate
Moritz is a research scholar at Guarini Global Law & Tech and the Institute for International law and Justice (IILJ) as well as an Adjunct Professor at New York University Law School. Moritz teaches the Guarini Colloquium on Legal Controls of Digital Corporations with Joseph H. H. Weiler. He obtained his PhD in law and JD equivalent at Humboldt-University of Berlin and was a postdoctoral researcher at Guarini Global Law & Tech in 2023. Moritz received several international awards for his work and is an editor at Verfassungsblog and the European Journal of Legal Studies. His research focuses on private and regulatory governance, especially in the digital realm.
Email: ms15229@nyu.edu
Twitter: @schrammmo
YUPING LIN | Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Yuping Lin is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her JSD and LLM from Yale Law School and her LLB and LLM from Peking University Law School. She is a Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and was previously a Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. She also used to serve as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of Law & Technology.
Email: yl15825@nyu.edu
KATHERINE RIZKALLA | Admin & Research Scholar
Katherine Rizkalla is an administrator and research scholar at Guarini Global Law & Tech and the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). She is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, where she completed programs in ‘Fundamentals: Issues and Texts’ and ‘Philosophy and Allied Fields.’ Katherine is interested in bringing a legal philosophy perspective to international law at NYU.
Email: katherine.rizkalla@nyu.edu
THOMAS STREINZ | Senior Fellow
Thomas Streinz is Joint Chair in Law with interests in regulatory theory and regulatory institutions at the European University Institute’s Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence. His current research interests focus on digital governance and global law and technology, in particular the regulation of the global data economy and the governance of digital infrastructures. As an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University’s School of Law, Professor Streinz convened colloquia on the regulation of global digital corporations, taught courses on Global Data Law, and conducted interdisciplinary seminars on selected topics in Global Tech Law. Professor Streinz was the inaugural Executive Director of the Guarini Global Law and Tech initiative at NYU Law, where he retains an affiliation as a Senior Fellow.
Email: thomas.streinz[at]eui.eu
Bluesky: @streinz.bsky.social
Fediverse: @streinz@someone.elses.computer
YIRONG SUN | Fellow
Yirong Sun is a research fellow at Guarini Global Law & Tech and the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). She holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU Law, an LL.B. from Tsinghua University School of Law, and minored in Economics at Tsinghua University School of Social Sciences. She is also an alumnus of International Arbitration and Dispute Settlement Program at Tsinghua. Prior to joining Guarini Global Law & Tech, Yirong worked as a research assistant with Dr. Jane Willems in international arbitration seated in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her research focuses on space technologies and planetary governance.
Email: ys5086[at]nyu.edu
Twitter: @yirong_sun
SUNOO PARK | Faculty Fellow
Sunoo Park is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Affiliated Interdisciplinary Faculty at the NYU School of Law. Her research is in technology law and policy, with particular interest in the security, privacy, and transparency of digital technologies. In computer science, she does research in cryptography and computer security. She received her J.D. at Harvard Law School, her Ph.D. in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her B.A. in computer science at the University of Cambridge.
Email: sunoo.park@nyu.edu
JACQUELENE MWANGI | Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Jacquelene holds a law degree from Kenya, a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School, and is completing her SJD at Harvard Law School. Her research at NYU will examine the infrastructures that underpin the global digital economy and shape development in the Global South. Focusing on data-driven firms in sectors such as fintech in Kenya, the project investigates how access to critical digital infrastructures such as cloud services, platforms, payment systems, data and compute resources is structured, and how these arrangements shape opportunities for innovation and economic participation by smaller firms. Through this work, she seeks to illuminate how infrastructural power is legally and technically constituted, identify points of intervention through which developing countries can better navigate and shape their participation in the digital economy, and contribute to debates on digital trade, development, and global digital governance.
Email: jwm10026@nyu.edu
ANGELINA FISHER | Director for Practice & Policy
Angelina Fisher is Director for Practice and Policy of Guarini Global Law & Tech and Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law. She holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. She is the founder and co-teacher of the International Organizations Clinic. Her research interests include global governance of education, international organizations, and technologies of governance (particular uses of data and quantitative information).
Email: angelina.fisher[at]gmail.com
Twitter: @AngelinaFisherD
MARCO GERMANÓ | Research Associate
Marco Germanò is an SJD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and holds an LLM from NYU Law School. He holds an LLB from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and master's degrees from Peking University and the University of São Paulo. Before joining NYU, Marco worked with various universities and policy think tanks internationally. His research focuses on the transnational regulation of emerging technologies, the agency of the Global South in shaping digital infrastructure, and the role of law in governing open-source software supply chains.
Email: mag9739@nyu.edu
ALICE FILL | Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Alice is currently a doctoral researcher in International Relations and International Law at the École Normale Supérieurein Paris (ENS-PSL), where she is affiliated with the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk, and at the Department of Law at Roma Tre University. She holds a doctoral fellowship at the Institut Convergences Migrations (CNRS) and is a member of the POMAF collective on African migration policies. She is involved in the COST Action DATAMIG, co-coordinates the STS-MigTec Circle, and until 2025 served on the board of the IMISCOE PhD Network.Her research examines, through an infrastructural approach, how the digital identification turn is reshaping the relationship between citizenship and migration in West Africa.
Email: af5771@nyu.edu
