Elettra is an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University.
She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP). Elettra's research is on the evolution of tech law, antitrust, privacy under digital capitalism. Her current focus is on (a) addictive technologies and attention capture, and (b) the role of antitrust law under digital capitalism and its interplay with other domains such as privacy law, free expression, and sectoral regulation. She sometimes advises and collaborates with civil society organizations.
In 2022-23, Elettra was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech in New York. In 2022, she completed an SJD dissertation at Harvard Law School titled "Law, Freedom and Power in the Digital Platform Economy" under the supervision of Professor Yochai Benkler. Before academia, Elettra was a competition and intellectual property lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP (now AOSherman) in London and Brussels. Elettra speaks fluent Italian and French and has been admitted to practice law in New York (2013) and England and Wales (2016). She holds an LLB from University College London (2011), and LLM from Harvard Law School (2012), a Diploma in IP Law and Practice from Oxford University (2016) and an SJD from Harvard Law School (2022).
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