Ellen P. Goodman

Ellen P. Goodman is a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School. She has just completed a stint as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Goodman’s research focuses on information policy and law, including AI and digital platform policy, smart cities, free speech, media policy, data ethics, and advertising law. She is co-director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. Goodman has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the German Marshal Fund, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Communications Commission, and has visited at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, Wharton School of Business, Annenberg School of Communications, and the London School of Economics. She is the recipient of grants from the Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for work on digital public media, digital platform transparency, and digital journalism law. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Goodman was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling LLP and served as Of Counsel with the firm until 2009. She clerked for Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after graduating from Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.