Elettra is a joint Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU School of Law and the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech in New York. Her research is on data law, antitrust law and market regulation as they play out in the platform economy. She recently defended an SJD dissertation “Law, Freedom and Power in the Digital Platform Economy” at Harvard Law School where her primary advisor was Professor Yochai Benkler. Elettra is affiliated to the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, to the Information Society Project at Yale Law School as well as to Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan. She sometimes advises and collaborates with civil society. She will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University in summer, 2023.
Prior to academia, she was a competition and intellectual property lawyer in London and Brussels, handling corporate transactions and patent disputes. She holds an LLB from University College London (2011), and LLM from Harvard Law School (2012), a Diploma in IP Law and Practice from Oxford University (2016) and an SJD from Harvard Law School (2022).