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Please join us for our third IP Speaker Series event of the 2023 Fall semester! On Wednesday, November 1 at 12 pm in the Student Conference Center Elettra Bietti, Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, will be discussing her work titled The Data-Attention Imperative.

Elettra Bietti is an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University. She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School & Information Society Project (ISP). In 2022-2023, Elettra was a joint Postdoctoral Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU School of Law and at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech in New York. In 2022, Elettra completed a doctorate at Harvard Law School where she defended a dissertation on the regulation of digital platform companies and data. Her research is on technology, antitrust and privacy law and how they overlap in the digital platform economy. Elettra sometimes advises and collaborates with civil society organizations such as Privacy International. Prior to academia, she was a competition and intellectual property lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP in London and Brussels, handling corporate transactions and patent disputes.

Lunch will be provided. This is an in-person event.

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