Aileen Nielsen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law2025-2026
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, Too Accurate A.I., 2024 Mich. St. L. Rev. 425 (2025).
- Yafit Lev-Aretz & Aileen Nielsen, Privacy as a Matter of Public Health, 26 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 107 (2025).
- Aileen Nielsen, Stavroula Skylaki, Milda Norkute et al., Building a better lawyer: Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 979 (2024).
- 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).