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Alicia Solow-Niederman’s scholarship sits at the intersection of law and technology. 

Her research focuses on how to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in a way that reckons with social, economic, and political power. With an emphasis on algorithmic accountability, data governance, and information privacy, Professor Solow-Niederman explores how digital technologies can both challenge longstanding regulatory approaches and expose underlying legal values. Professor Solow-Niederman’s work has been published in the Stanford Law Review, Harvard Journal on Law & Technology, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review, among other law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. Her article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, was one of two papers awarded an “Honorable Mention” in the 2026 AALS Scholarly Papers competition and one of seven papers nationwide that received the 2026 Future of Privacy Forum “Privacy Papers for Policymakers” award. In recognition of her scholarship, she received the 2026 George Washington University Office for Vice Provost of Research Early Career Award. 

Professor Solow-Niederman is a member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Advisory Board. She is also a faculty affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, where she worked with the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic on a series of FOIA requests concerning state government use of AI. Professor Solow-Niederman teaches or has taught courses in information privacy, technology and law, legislation and regulation, and torts. She was previously a Climenko fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and also served as the inaugural fellow in artificial intelligence, law, and policy for UCLA Law’s Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence. Professor Solow-Niederman clerked in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Publications

Publication
Jun 2, 2014

Framing the Law & Policy Picture: A Snapshot of K-12 Cloud-Based Ed Tech & Student Privacy in Early 2014

This paper provides a snapshot of key aspects of a diverse—and heated—law, policy, and implementation debate that is taking place in the rapidly evolving cloud-based ed tech…

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Stanford Law Review

AI and Doctrinal Collapse

Visiting Scholar Alicia Solow-Niederman identifies "inter-regime doctrinal collapse," a source of legal strain by which the boundaries between information privacy law and…

May 30, 2026
Wharton Accountable AI Forum

When AI Broke the Law

AI "breaks" the law, in that the legal structures governing the technology fail to operate in clear, consistent, and principled ways.

Feb 1, 2026
UCLA Law Review

Can AI Standards Have Politics?

BKC Faculty Associate Alicia Solow-Niederman analyzes real world examples of standards to show an inconvenient truth: that standards are neither objective nor neutral.

Feb 2, 2024

Events

Nov 13, 2012 @ 12:30 PM

This is Improbable

Featuring Marc Abrahams and other special guests

Marc Abrahams -- publisher of the Annals of Improbable Research, host of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and author of several books (including his latest, This is Improbable:…