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
THOMAS STREINZ | Executive Director
Thomas Streinz is the Executive Director of Guarini Global Law & Tech, Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law, and Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). He works on Internet governance (ICANN), regulation of the global data economy (MegaReg), and global law and technology. He teaches the Guarini Colloquium: International Law of Global Digital Corporations (with Benedict Kingsbury and Joseph H. H. Weiler), the Global Data Law course (with Angelina Fisher and Benedict Kingsbury), and the Global Tech Law: Selected Topic Seminar.
Email: thomas.streinz[at]law.nyu.edu
Twitter: @t_streinz
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
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
DAVID B. STEIN | Frank J. Guarini Scholar
David is the 2022-2023 Frank J. Guarini Scholar in Global Tech Law & Policy. David has a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a M.Eng. and S.B. in computer science from MIT. Prior to joining Guarini Global Law & Tech David spent a decade in the tech industry. His experience includes working as the technical lead for cybersecurity for Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet's urban innovation company), as director of engineering at Braze, and as an early engineer at Dropbox. His research focuses on how changes in technology can motivate changes in governance.
Email: stein[at]law.nyu.edu
Twitter: @steindavidb
NATHALIE SMUHA | Emile Noel Fellow
Nathalie Smuha is a legal scholar and philosopher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, where she examines legal and ethical questions around artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. Her research focuses particularly on the impact of AI on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. She is the academic coordinator of the KU Leuven Summer School on the Law, Ethics and Policy of AI, and a member of the Leuven.AI Institute and the Digital Society Institute. Previously, she has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago Law School and at the University of Birmingham Law School.. Besides her academic activities, Nathalie Smuha regularly advises governments and international organizations on AI policy. She coordinated the work of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI which drafted Europe’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, and she was a scientific expert in the Council of Europe’s (Ad Hoc) Committee on AI which is developing a new AI Convention. She is also a member of the UNESCO Expert Group on AI and the Futures of Learning, the OECD’s Network of Experts on AI, and AI4Belgium Ethics & Law.
Email: nas9215[at]nyu.edu
Twitter: @NathalieSmuha
