Tiffany Li
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2014
MSt, University of Cambridge, 2023
Member, California State Bar
Professor Li is an internationally recognized expert on privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology platform governance. Li is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, where she teaches Torts, Privacy, and other courses in law and technology. She is also a Faculty Affiliate Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Professor Li regularly appears as a legal commentator in national and global news outlets, and she has written for popular publications including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Slate, as well as a recurring column on technology and privacy for MSNBC.
Professor Li's academic scholarship has been published in the Georgia Law Review, the UC Law Journal, the Villanova Law Review, the SMU Law Review, the American University Law Review, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, among others. Her work addresses some of the most pressing questions at the intersection of law and technology, including algorithmic harms, privacy as a civil right, public health surveillance, social media platform liability, and U.S. and international regulation of artificial intelligence. Her research has been cited in court decisions, academic textbooks, and popular press.
Even if the deck is stacked, and the house always wins, you've got to learn the rules of the game. This is the enterprise of law. A legal education gives you the tools to critique unjust systems of power and to build a new, better world.
Prior to joining Southwestern, Professor Li taught at the University of San Francisco School of Law (where she served as Faculty Director of the IP and Technology LLM program), the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, and the Boston University School of Law. She has held past affiliations with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, UC Berkeley's Center for Technology, Society and Policy, and UNC's Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.
In addition to her academic career, Professor Li also has experience working in law and policy roles at leading technology organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, General Assembly, Inc., and Ask.com. She is a licensed attorney and holds CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPM, and FIP certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Professor Li earned her B.A. in English from UCLA, where she was a Norma J. Ehrlich Scholar, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar. She recently completed an MSt in AI Ethics and Society from the University of Cambridge.
Professor Li has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Fastcase 50 award, an ABA Intellectual Property Law Fellowship, a Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellowship from the New America Foundation, the Fellow of Information Privacy designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellowship.