Julia Powles

Research Fellow in Information Law at New York University School of Law
October 29, 2018 - 12:00pm
Big Tech and AI Complacency
Yale Law School, room 127 See map
127 Wall St.

About Julia Powles

Dr. Julia Powles is a Research Fellow in Information Law at New York University School of Law and a 2018 Poynter Fellow at Yale University. In 2019, she will join the University of Western Australia as an Associate Professor of Law. Her current projects focus on privacy, intellectual property, and antitrust in relation to data-driven technologies. She is widely published in academic and popular outlets, with bylines in the Financial TimesGuardianNew YorkerSlate, and Wired, among others. Prior to coming to New York for positions at Cornell Tech and NYU Law, Powles was a Postdoctoral Fellow cross-appointed between the Faculty of Law and Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, a Contributing Editor and Policy Fellow at the Guardian, and Speechwriter for the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization. 

Powles has worked as an IP/IT attorney, a bioscience researcher, and clerked in the Federal Court of Australia and Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal. A former Commonwealth Scholar, Powles holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, a BCL from the University of Oxford, a LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia, and a BSc (Hons) from the Australian National University.