Artur Pericles L. Monteiro — 2023-2024 WIII Fellow
Art's work focuses on platform governance, freedom of expression, privacy, and artificial intelligence. He edits the ISP’s Digital Future Whitepaper Series and was a member of the steering committee of the Yale–Georgetown AI Governance Virtual Symposium Series. His work as Wikimedia Fellow built on his experience in civil society. Art was part of the group that revised the Santa Clara Principles and was a member of Twitter’s disbanded Trust & Safety Council’s Content Governance Initiative. He has consulted as an expert on platform governance and other digital rights issues, as is the country reporter for Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net report. Art holds a Ph.D. and an LL.B (JD-equivalent) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to coming to Yale, he was head of research for InternetLab, a leading law and technology think tank in Brazil, and practiced as a data protection and information technology attorney. Art also led a reading group at Yale Law School and headed the University of São Paulo's freedom of expression clinic.
Mehtab Khan - 2021-2023 WIII Fellow
Mehtab Khan's research intersects issues in Intellectual Property, Data Governance, and AI Ethics. In her leadership role at the ISP, she has led new research projects, including the Platform Governance Terminologies Essay Series. She has also organized and hosted a series of high profile events, including the first Yale ISP-WIII AI Governance Symposium.
She was a Fellow at the Center for Technology, Society and Policy, as well as a Research Grantee at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, to study the implications of the use of AI in hiring. She has been an affiliate at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. She has done stints at the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—three Bay Area institutions that have been at the forefront of many legal battles around digital rights. She has taught law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where she designed the first course on Internet Law to be offered at any law school in Pakistan. She holds a BA-LLB. from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and an SJD from the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to her work at the ISP, Mehtab has advised a UNESCO working group on internet use in Pakistan, technology startups in the US, as well as mentored students interested in law & technology. She has a keen interest in issues surrounding freedom of expression around the world, the regulation of new technologies, and the approaches to internet governance in the Global South.
Michael Karanicolas - 2019-21 WIII Fellow
Michael Karanicolas led the Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. His research encompasses a number of thematic areas, including freedom of expression and content regulation, privacy and surveillance, digital contracts, internet governance, the right to information, human rights and international development, intellectual property law, and the regulation of election speech. Prior to joining the ISP, Michael worked at the Centre for Law and Democracy, and carried out consultancies for the Open Government Partnership, UNESCO, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and Dalhousie University. In this capacity, he has led law reform campaigns in defence of foundational rights for democracy across the developing world, including particularly substantial engagement in Afghanistan, Jordan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, the Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestine, and Tunisia. In addition to his peer reviewed work, his writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including Slate, Techdirt, Just Security, the Ottawa Citizen, and Dawn. His commentary on contemporary human rights issues has appeared on Voice of America, CTV, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Al Arabiya, and The Hill.
Michael has a B.A. (Hons.) from Queen's University (Dean's List), an LL.B. from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University (Dean's List), and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where he received a Graduate Fellowship in Innovation Law and Policy. In addition to his role with the WIII Initiative, Michael is the President of the Right to Know Coalition, a Canadian NGO which works to promote government transparency, and he serves on the Executive Committee of ICANN’s Noncommercial Users’ Constituency.
You can find Michael on Twitter @M_Karanicolas and @YaleISP_WIII.
Tiffany Li2017-19 WIII Fellow
Tiffany C. Li was the inaugural WIII Fellow, from 2017-2019. Her academic research focuses on privacy, intellectual property (particularly copyright), and technology platform governance. She frequently writes and speaks on issues including: internet law and policy, intermediary liability, social media companies, internet access, net neutrality, online speech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, DNA and genetic privacy, biometric privacy, facial recognition, blockchain, “fake news” and disinformation, open knowledge, fair use, copyright law, consumer privacy, children’s privacy, and digital surveillance. Li’s public scholarship has appeared in popular publications including the Washington Post, NBC News, and Slate. She is a frequent featured expert in television, radio, podcasts, and print and digital publications. Her academic work has appeared in the Computer Security and Law Review, the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology, and the Seattle University Law Review, among others.
Li has been honored as a Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow (Global Public Policy Institute and New America Foundation), a Fellow of Information Privacy (International Association of Privacy Professionals), an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow (Internet Education Foundation), and an ABA Intellectual Property Law Fellow (American Bar Association). Li is also an Affiliate Scholar at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Previously, Li was in-house counsel for General Assembly, a global technology education company. She has also held legal positions at the Wikimedia Foundation, Amazon, Ask.com, the Federal Communications Commission, and the U.S. Department of State. Li is a licensed attorney in California, New York (pending), and New Jersey (pending). She holds CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, and CIPM certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is also a Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board Member for the IAPP.
She has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, and a B.A. in English from University of California Los Angeles, where she was a Norma J. Ehrlich Alumni Scholar. She has also studied at Oxford University (England) and Fudan University (China). You can find information on her website (https://www.tiffanyli.com) or follow her on Twitter @tiffanycli.