Abby Lemert
Associate Research Scholar and the Fellow in Private Law
Abby Lemert is an associate research scholar and the fellow in private law at Yale Law School. Alongside Daniel Markovits, Lemert designs and organizes programming for the Yale Law School Center for Private Law, including primary responsibility for the 2026 seminar in private law, “Private Law as Creator & Destroyer of Community.” Lemert's research aims to articulate the impacts of law-enabled corporatism on the moral formation of self and community. She writes on torts, tech regulation, antitrust, consumer law, and complex civil litigation. Lemert is also a resident fellow for Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Jack Balkin at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 2023, Lemert clerked for Judge David Hamilton on the Seventh Circuit in Bloomington, Indiana, and then worked as a litigation associate at Edelson P.C. on multidistrict litigation targeting algorithmic price-fixing.
While at Yale Law School, Lemert co-founded the Tech Accountability & Competition (TAC) Project, a clinic focused on holding public and private actors accountable for the power they wield in the digital sphere. With TAC, Lemert helped draft an amicus brief on behalf of Sen. Ron Wyden and former Rep. Chris Cox, the authors of Section 230, in Gonzalez v. Google, the first-ever Supreme Court case interpreting Section 230. In addition, Lemert was an editor for the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, a Kerry fellow, and a frequent Lawfare contributor. Previously, Lemert worked for the Facebook Oversight Board, the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, Privacy International, the U.S. Department of State, and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties & Privacy Office.
Prior to law school, Lemert studied computer science and international relations in the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar, and received her B.S.E. in Engineering from Purdue University. Lemert is a proud Hoosier from Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Education
J.D., Yale Law School, 2023
M.A., Public Diplomacy & Global Communication, University College London, 2020
M.Sc., Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2019
B.S.E., Multidisciplinary Engineering, Purdue University, 2018
Publications
Facebook’s Corporate Law Paradox, 17 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 43 (2022)