Fordham CLIP

As the field of information technology continues to grow at breakneck speed, our society increasingly relies on its developments and innovations. Law and policy, however, often trail the technological advances.

In 2005, Fordham Law founded CLIP, the Center on Law and Information Policy, in response to these regulatory challenges. CLIP is now on the cutting edge of scholarship and legal education in the emerging field of information law.

The Center supports and conducts research, organizes workshops and conferences, and hosts and facilitates high-level public discourse on topics such as data privacy and security, peer-to-peer technologies and intellectual property protection of information assets, and the liability of Internet intermediaries.

CLIP’s work is disseminated widely, helping to influence the guiding principles of our knowledge-driven society and find solutions to legal issues posed by information technologies.


Fordham CLIP In the News

Meet U.S. Marine Veteran and REAL Scholar Shervin Shahnazi ’26

Meet U.S. Marine Veteran and REAL Scholar Shervin Shahnazi ’26

During his four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Shervin Shahnazi ’26 oversaw a platoon of 35 marines as a First Lieutenant. When on the ground, especially during his deployment …

Beacon Theatre Using Facial Recognition to Ban Lawyers

Beacon Theatre Using Facial Recognition to Ban Lawyers

In the fourth installment of her series that explores modern threats to privacy, Andrea Flink, a senior fellow at the Center on Law and Information Policy, discusses Madison Square Garden …

Fordham Law Partners with Carnegie Mellon to Lead National Science Foundation Project to Bridge Law and Computing

Fordham Law Partners with Carnegie Mellon to Lead National Science Foundation Project to Bridge Law and Computing

Fordham Law School is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) on a new National Science Foundation program to study innovative ways to make software more accountable …

Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests — Worth the Risks?

Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests — Worth the Risks?

Andrea Flink, a senior fellow at the Center on Law and Information Policy, has authored the latest piece in her West Side Rag series on DNA privacy and information sharing. …

Column Exploring Modern Threats to Privacy by Andrea Flink Launches in the West Side Rag

Column Exploring Modern Threats to Privacy by Andrea Flink Launches in the West Side Rag

Andrea Flink, a senior fellow at the Center on Law and Information Policy, will author an ongoing column in the West Side Rag that examines modern threats to our privacy. …

Ilana Blumenthal ’22 Wins IAPP Westin Scholar Award

Ilana Blumenthal ’22 Wins IAPP Westin Scholar Award

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Westin Scholar Award was presented this year to Ilana Blumenthal ’22. The award was created in 2020 as a way to “support students …

Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill Delivers Second Annual Reidenberg Lecture

Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill Delivers Second Annual Reidenberg Lecture

On May 13, Fordham Law School welcomed Julie Brill, the chief privacy officer and corporate vice president of global privacy and regulatory affairs at Microsoft, to deliver the 2022 Reidenberg …

Rafita Ahlam ’21 Named Recipient of Westin Scholar Award

Rafita Ahlam ’21 Named Recipient of Westin Scholar Award

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has named recent graduate Rafita Ahlam ’21 as the recipient of the annual Westin Scholar Award. The IAPP is the world’s largest and …

Federal Judge Denny Chin Speaks at First Annual Reidenberg Lecture

Federal Judge Denny Chin Speaks at First Annual Reidenberg Lecture

On April 29, Fordham Law School launched the inaugural Reidenberg Lecture, a new annual series of talks memorializing the life and legacy of the late Professor Joel Reidenberg, Stanley D. …

Elias Wright ’20 Wins First Place in the James R. Cleary Prize Competition

Elias Wright ’20 Wins First Place in the James R. Cleary Prize Competition

Recent graduate Elias Wright ’20 was awarded first place and a prize of $1,000 in the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy’s second annual James R. Cleary Prize competition …

Fordham Law School Students Volunteer Time To Teach Children How To Stay Safe On The Internet

Fordham Law School Students Volunteer Time To Teach Children How To Stay Safe On The Internet

Fordham Law students in the Center on Law and Information Policy’s Privacy Educators Program were featured in on CBS New York for their work educating New York public school students on …

The California Consumer Privacy Act

The California Consumer Privacy Act

The California Consumer Privacy Act relies heavily upon the work of Professor Joel Reidenberg, CLIP executive director Tom Norton ’16, and CLIP’s work, funded by the National Science Foundation, with …

The Role of Active Privacy Management in a World Where the Consent Model Breaks Down

The Role of Active Privacy Management in a World Where the Consent Model Breaks Down

Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) organized a panel at the 2020 Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels, Belgium. The discussion, titled “The Role …

N.J. Data Broker Tried to Sell Personal Info on a Million Kids but Didn’t Tell State Officials

N.J. Data Broker Tried to Sell Personal Info on a Million Kids but Didn’t Tell State Officials

Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy, was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about student data privacy. A New Jersey company that collects …

Joel Reidenberg Receives Berkeley Privacy Award

Joel Reidenberg Receives Berkeley Privacy Award

On March 14, Professor Joel Reidenberg received the 2019 BCLT Privacy Award from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The award recognizes Reidenberg’s seminal scholarship, innovative policy entrepreneurship, and …

Zuckerberg’s End-to-End Encryption Plan Could Put Facebook at Odds with Law Enforcement

Zuckerberg’s End-to-End Encryption Plan Could Put Facebook at Odds with Law Enforcement

Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy, was quoted in an NBC News article about Facebook’s possible new technology that supports end-to-end encryption …

The Hidden Dangers of DNA Tests: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

The Hidden Dangers of DNA Tests: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP), appeared in an NBC News video where he talked about privacy concerns related to at-home …

The High Cost of Online Privacy

The High Cost of Online Privacy

“It’s free and always will be”—a marketing line that Facebook features on its homepage—is an assertion that Tom Norton, executive director at Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Policy …

Facebook Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank as Americans Shrug Off Privacy Concerns

Facebook Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank as Americans Shrug Off Privacy Concerns

Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of Fordham CLIP, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article where he discusses state laws needed to address technology-related privacy concerns. Tech companies have …

Will Facebook Face Record Fines Over Privacy Violations?

Will Facebook Face Record Fines Over Privacy Violations?

Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of Fordham CLIP, appeared on Bloomberg Law radio where he discussed Facebook’s recent privacy scandals. I think Facebook probably has the largest number of users. …