DLI Technology Law & Policy Fellowship – Cornell University

Description:

At Cornell Tech, we are building a home for digital pioneers—those of the conviction that pragmatic, purpose-driven research spurs relevant and valuable progress. Cornell Tech focuses on creating pioneering leaders and technologies for the digital age, through research, technology commercialization, and graduate-level education at the professional masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. To learn more, visit http://tech.cornell.edu/.

Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative is excited to announce that it is now recruiting for a newly created Fellowship in Technology Law and Policy. The Tech Law Fellow will augment DLI’s research and educational mission, examining digital life through the lens of ethics, politics, and quality of life. With guidance from DLI Director Helen Nissenbaum and from Professor James Grimmelmann, the Tech Law Fellow will develop and pursue legal and policy responses to key societal challenges arising from the development and deployment of digital technologies. Working alongside and complementing an outstanding, multidisciplinary community of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows, Visitors, and Faculty, the Tech Law Fellow will pursue legal and policy approaches to a range of urgent topics including but not limited to privacy and surveillance, platform governance, transparency, content moderation, algorithmic discrimination, digital political economy, information control and freedom, fundamental rights, digital inequality, network regulation, and security.

This position is structured as a postdoctoral associate position. Salary is commensurate with experience and a generous Cornell University benefits package will be provided. The fellowship will be for a term of two years, potentially renewable for a third year. Likely start date will coincide with the start of AY 2021, but a different date could be negotiated.

Responsibilities:

Although the Technology Law and Policy Fellow will seek to publish legal and policy scholarship, their primary responsibility will be to help lead and communicate the Digital Life Initiative’s legal and policy responses in these areas. They will engage deeply with the US policy-making process, such as by drafting amicus briefs, filing comments with government agencies, reviewing proposed legislation, briefing policy-makers, producing white papers on important policy topics, and communicating with the public and the media. The Tech Law Fellow will also have the opportunity to work with masters and doctoral students enrolled in Cornell Tech's programs in law, computer science, information science, operations research, business, and financial engineering.

Qualifications:

Successful applicants will hold JD, LLM, or JSD degrees, or a Ph.D. in a closely related field such as Public Policy or Political Science. They will have demonstrated experience in one or more of the activities listed above.

Application:

Interested applicants can view the posting here.

To apply, applicants should submit the following materials to Jessie Taft at jgt43@cornell.edu

• A current C.V.

• A cover letter describing your fit for the position

• Two writing samples (at least one of which should demonstrate engagement with the US policy-making process)

• Names and contact information of three references

Applications will be considered beginning on Friday, January 15, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled. If you have questions about the position or about the application process, please contact jgt43@cornell.edu