Danny Wilf-Townsend

Danny Wilf-Townsend is a visiting associate professor of law at Yale Law School and an associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Wilf-Townsend teaches and writes about artificial intelligence, consumer protection, and civil procedure. 

Wilf-Townsend’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in a variety of journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Yale Law Journal Forum, and Stanford Law Review Online. His work has been cited by federal district and circuit courts addressing issues of Article III standing, personal jurisdiction, and default judgments. In 2024–25, he was an Access to Justice Scholar with the American Bar Foundation and JPB Foundation. That year, he was also awarded the National Civil Justice Institute’s Civil Justice Scholarship Award. Wilf-Townsend is regularly an invited speaker at conferences and other events addressing the use and regulation of artificial intelligence.

Before entering academia, Wilf-Townsend worked as a litigator in state and federal courts, where he briefed or argued cases on behalf of consumers, workers, and government entities in class actions and constitutional litigation. He served as a law clerk to Judge Marsha Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and Judge Jeffrey Meyer ’89 on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He was also a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He holds a B.A. from Yale College and J.D. from Yale Law School.