Summary:
On this episode of the Touro Law Review Podcast, Professor Tiffany Li describes her journey from law student at Georgetown Law School to faculty member at the University of San Francisco Law School. As Professor Li explains, she followed her passion for technology into the academy now writes about and teaches courses on intellectual property, privacy issues, and artificial intelligence.
In her conversation with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, Professor Li talks about the importance of professional networking, the ever-present need to write, and ways to distinguish yourself as a candidate even if you did not attend an elite law school. She reminds listeners that they should highlight their accomplishments during the screening interview and use the callback interview to evaluate whether the school feels like a good fit. Professor Li has compiled a resources for anyone interested in becoming a law professor here: So You Want to Be a Law Professor: An Unofficial and Incomplete Guide to Pursuing a Law Teaching Career by Tiffany C. Li :: SSRN].
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Learn more about Professor Tiffany Li:
Tiffany Li is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she teaches intellectual property and technology law courses. She is also a Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.
Professor Li is an expert on privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology platform governance. She 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. Her academic scholarship has appeared in the SMU Law Review, American University Law Review, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and more. Li previously taught for the University of New Hampshire School of Law and Boston University School of Law. She has held past affiliations with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy and U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Technology, Society and Policy. She serves as the Academic Director of the IPT LLM Program.
Prior to academia, Professor Li gained experience in law and policy at leading technology organizations including the Wikimedia Foundation, General Assembly, Inc., and Ask.com. Li is a licensed attorney and has CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPM, and FIP certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, and a B.A. in English from University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a Norma J. Ehrlich Scholar. She is currently completing an MSt (Master’s) in AI Ethics and Society from the University of Cambridge.
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