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Elettra Bietti

Bio

Elettra Bietti, an expert on the regulation of digital technologies, data and digital platform intermediaries, joined the Northeastern faculty in 2023 as assistant professor of law and computer science within the School of Law and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Professor Bietti was previously a joint fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU and the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech in New York. Bietti studies digital platforms as well as privacy, data protection and antitrust law. She defends an approach to law that is sensitive to infrastructural and collective concerns in the digital economy.

Professor Bietti’s work has been published or is forthcoming in legal venues such as the Texas Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Georgetown Tech Law Review, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, the German Law Journal, as well as general or technical venues, such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency and the Journal of Social Computing. Prior to academia, Professor Bietti was an antitrust and intellectual property lawyer at Allen & Overy in London and Brussels, where she handled cross-border corporate transactions and intellectual property disputes.

Professor Bietti holds an SJD and LLM from Harvard Law School, an LLB from University College London and a Postgraduate Diploma in IP Law and Practice from Oxford University. She is a faculty associate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and is an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.  

Fields of Expertise

• Antitrust Law
• Contracts
• Law and Technology
• Political Economy
• Privacy