Mehtab Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where she teaches intellectual property, artificial intelligence law, and other technology-related subjects. She is an expert on copyright law, platform governance, and artificial intelligence.
Her recent scholarship includes work on accountability frameworks for AI training datasets, automated content moderation, and the digitization of cultural property. Mehtab was previously a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where she also served as Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. She was later a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where her work examined the impact of AI on creative industries.
She has also held affiliations with Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and the Center for Technology, Society and Policy at UC Berkeley. Her doctoral work at Berkeley Law examined the role of internet platforms in shaping fair use. Before academia, Mehtab practiced law in the United States, Malaysia, and Pakistan, and worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She holds an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Berkeley Law.