Aileen Nielsen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law2024-2025
Aileen Nielsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches privacy law and torts. Her research focuses on the interplay of law and technology, drawing on empirical methods and private law topics. She holds degrees in anthropology, physics, and law. She has written two trade books on machine learning and has also worked in industry as a data scientist. She is a member of the New York bar.
Recent Publications
- Aileen Nielsen, Whose Data, Whose Value? Simple Exercises in Data and Modeling Evaluation with Implications for Technology Law and Policy, 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 63 (2024).
- Aileen Nielsen, Can cities shape future tech regulation?, 1 Nature Cities 10 (2024).
- Aileen Nielsen, Taboo and Technology: Experimental Studies of Data Protection Reform, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 349 (2024).
- Aileen Nielsen, Stavroula Skylaki, Milda Norkute et al., Effects of XAI on Legal Process (ICAIL '23: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023).
- Aileen Nielsen, The Rights and Wrongs of Folk Beliefs about Speech: Implications for Content Moderation, 27 UCLA J. L. & Tech. 118 (2022).