About Me

I am a scholar and teacher of law and technology. My research examines how governments and technology companies regulate digital life, with a particular focus on privacy, sexuality, speech, and abuse. I teach Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Torts, and a seminar on digital harms.

My scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Harvard Law Review Forum, Texas Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, as well as the peer-reviewed Journal of Tort Law and Journal of Free Speech Law. My essays and commentary have also appeared in The New York Times and Slate. I am the author of three free, open-access books—Tort Law: Cases & Critique, Cybercrime Scenarios, and Dilemmas in Digital Abuse. I have served as principal investigator on a $750,000 National Science Foundation-funded interdisciplinary project exploring how artificial intelligence can reveal and constrain digital searches by police. In 2025, I received the Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award.

I am a professor of law at the University of Miami and a senior fellow at the Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing. I have previously served as a visiting fellow at the European University Institute and as a visiting scholar at Insper São Paulo, and I remain an associate with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia. As Legislative & Policy Director at Cornell’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse, I have advised lawmakers and companies on tech-enabled abuse and provided expert testimony before committees in the U.S. Congress and the Massachusetts Legislature. Before entering academia, I clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. I also worked with the Federal Public Defender in Ohio and assisted the legal team behind the U.S. Supreme Court case that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry.

I am a professor of law at the University of Miami and a senior fellow at the Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing. I previously taught at the University of Georgia School of Law and remain an associate with UGA’s Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. I have also been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute and a visiting scholar at Insper São Paulo. I serve as Legislative & Policy Director at Cornell’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse, where I advise lawmakers and technology companies on tech-enabled abuse and have provided expert testimony before committees in the U.S. Congress and the Massachusetts Legislature. Earlier in my career, while in law school, I worked with the Federal Public Defender in Ohio and assisted the legal team in the landmark Supreme Court case recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. I then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Raised in a Lebanese-British family, I spent much of my childhood in England and France. I earned a degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews before moving to the United States as a Bobby Jones Scholar at Emory University. I received my J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, where I was awarded the Henry M. Bates Award, the school’s highest graduation honor. I then earned my Ph.D. in Law from Yale Law School as a Mellon Fellow.

If you’re interested in learning more about my work, please email me or read my scholarship.