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Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, Director, Digital Democracy Lab, William & Mary

Professor Margaret Hu is the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary Law School. She is a Faculty Affiliate with the Global Research Institute and Data Science at William & Mary, and a Research Affiliate with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. Her research interests include the intersection of AI, national security, cybersurveillance, and civil rights. She has published several notable works including, Biometrics and an AI Bill of Rights; Biometric ID Cybersurveillance; Big Data Blacklisting; Taxonomy of the Snowden Disclosures; Biometric Cyberintelligence and the Posse Comitatus Act; and Algorithmic Jim Crow. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy Forum, a non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C., that promotes responsible data privacy policies. Previously, she served as special policy counsel in the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Hu holds a B.A. from the University of Kansas and a J.D. from Duke Law School. She clerked for Judge Rosemary Barkett on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and subsequently joined the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Law and of International Affairs, Penn State