Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Center on AI and Digital Policy at the Michael Dukakis Institute. Governor Dukakis announced the new Center on July 1, 2020.
AI Expertise
Marc edited and published the AI Policy Sourcebook, the first reference book on AI policy. Marc served on the OECD AI Group of Experts and helped draft the OECD AI Principles. Marc also helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI, a widely endorsed human rights framework for AI policy. Marc has published several commentaries in the New York Times about the challenges of AI policymaking, including "Bias by Computer " and "The Battle over Artificial Intelligence ". Marc also helped launch the campaign in 2014 for Algorithmic Transparency.
Advisory Panels
Marc has served on many national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He is currently on panels for the National Academies of Sciences, the OECD, and the Aspen Institute. He is a former Chair of the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection and a founding board member and former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the.ORG domain. Marc is a member of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications, the FREE Group, and other organizations dedicated to the protection of civil liberties and fundamental rights.
Support for Civil Society
Marc has helped establish several organizations that promote public understanding of computer technology and encourage civil society participation in decisions concerning the future of the Internet. These include the Public Interest Computer Association, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy,, the Electronic Privacy Information Center , the Public Voice Coalition, the Public Interest Registry -.ORG, and the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council to the OECD ,.
Publications
Marc Rotenberg is co-author, with Professor Anita L. Allen, of Privacy Law and Society, a leading casebook on privacy law, and co-editor of Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions, a collection of articles on the future of privacy. Other books include The AI Policy Sourcebook, The Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments, Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments, Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws, Information Privacy Law and "Privacy and Technology: The New Frontier". Marc has also published articles and commentaries in legal, technical, and popular journals, including the ACS Supreme Court Review, Communications of the ACM, Computers & Society, CNN, Costco Connect, the Duke Law Journal, the Economist, the European Data Protection Review, The Financial Times, Fortune, the Indiana Law Review, the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Harvard International Review, the Japan Economic Forum, the Minnesota Law Review, Newsweek, Scientific American, the Stanford Technology Law Review, Techonomy, and USA Today, among others.
Education and Honors
Marc Rotenberg is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown Law. At Harvard, he was a founding editor of the Harvard International Review and a head teaching fellow in computer science. At Stanford he was an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review and President of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation. He was also the research assistant to A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., when the Judge and former FTC Commissioner was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the recipient of several awards including the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, the American Lawyer Top Lawyers Under 45, and the Vicennial Medal for distinguished service from Georgetown University. He was included in the "Lawdragon 500", a listing of the leading lawyers in America, and received the ABA Cyberspace Law Excellence Award, the World Technology Award for Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law and Technology.
Personal
Marc Rotenberg grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. His brother Jonathan Rotenberg founded the Boston Computer Society at age 13. Marc is married to Anna Markopoulos Rotenberg, an ESL teacher in the District of Columbia Public Schools. A tournament chess player, Rotenberg is a three-time Washington, DC Chess Champion and works to promote chess in the DC public schools in cooperation with the US Chess Center and ChessGirlsDC.
