Mehtab Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where I teach Intellectual Property, AI Law, and Law & Tech.
Her scholarship includes copyright law, platform governance, and artificial intelligence. Her recent work includes articles AI and Access to Knowledge, and the governance of Cultural Property. Her previous works include developing an accountability framework for large-scale AI training datasets, regulating automated content moderation and online speech tools, and the impact of AI on the creative industries.Mehtab was previously a Fellow (2023-2024) at the Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University. Her research at BKC examined ways of governing the practices involved in developing and deploying AI technologies.
Before Harvard, she was a Resident Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. In addition to research and teaching, she is actively engaged in collaborating with lawyers, scholars, and civil society organizations on various aspects of AI Regulation in the global south, including children's privacy, defining contextual harms, and examining the role of institutions. Mehtab has spoken on AI and technology regulation at numerous forums, including the Council on Foreign Relations, NYU’s Library Futures, Northwestern University, IAPP, the University of Rochester, the Ohio Legislature, and Yale University.