Elana Zeide is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She researches and writes about the legal, policy, and structural implications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, focusing on their impact on privacy, education, and economic mobility. Her scholarship examines how data-driven decision-making, algorithmic profiling, and surveillance reshape institutions, alter governance, and redefine rights, often reinforcing systemic inequities and challenging existing regulatory frameworks.
Her recent publications include The Silicon Ceiling: How Artificial Intelligence Constructs an Invisible Barrier to Opportunity (2023), which analyzes how AI-driven assessments and hiring tools perpetuate bias and limit opportunity, and “Student Privacy at 50: A Half-Century of Neglect” (forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review), which critiques the failures of federal student privacy laws in the digital age. Zeide’s work calls for regulatory frameworks that promote transparency, accountability, and structural equity in AI governance.
Zeide previously served as a PULSE Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Law & Policy at UCLA School of Law, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, and an Associate Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. She is an affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute and serves on advisory boards for The Future of Privacy Forum and Macmillan Learning’s Impact Research Advisory Council. She earned her JD and LLM from New York University School of Law, where she was a Notes Editor of the New York University Law Review. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and worked as a legal analyst at Bloomberg Media.
