Law

Jason Schultz

Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Jason M. Schultz is a Professor of Law, Director of NYU's Technology Law & Policy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. His clinical projects, research, and writing primarily focus on practical frameworks and policy options to help traditional areas of law such as intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, and civil rights adapt in light of new technologies and the challenges they pose. His most recent work focuses on the social and legal implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.

From 2024 - 2025, Professor Schultz served as Global Head of AI Policy at Canva where he worked with the company’s research, engineering, business, and legal teams on responsible AI practices in light of rapidly evolving global AI regulations.

From 2016 - 2017 Professor Schultz worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he served as Senior Advisor on Innovation and Intellectual Property to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.

With Aaron Perzanowski, he is the author of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (MIT Press 2016), which argues for retaining consumer property rights in a marketplace that increasingly threatens them.

Prior to joining NYU, Professor Schultz was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Before joining Boalt Hall, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading digital rights groups in the world and before that practiced intellectual property law at the firm of Fish & Richardson, PC. He also served as a clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen of the Northern District of California. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Courses Taught:

Innovation Policy Colloquium, Advanced Technology Law and Policy Clinic , Technology Law and Policy Clinic, Technology Law and Policy Clinic Seminar, 1L Reading Group: Authorship and Other So-called Acts of Creativity in the Age of AI, 1L Reading Group: Generative AI and the Future of Legal Automation, Survey of Intellectual Property (for 1Ls), 1L Reading Group: Machines as Legal Adversaries and Allies

Education

JD Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law · BA Public Policy & Women's Studies, Duke University

Topics

Intellectual Property · Privacy · Consumer Protection · Civil Rights · Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence · Legal Implications of the Internet of Things