Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer

Wendy is a visiting Practitioner in Residence at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she teaches courses in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic on intellectual property and information privacy.

As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats, and to research the effects of these threats on free expression. She also studies the impact of intellectual property law on Free and open source software and user innovation.

She has taught at Northeastern Law School, Brooklyn Law School, and St. John's Law School, and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York. She is a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1996 graduate of Harvard College.

Wendy serves as an advisor to the Citizen Media Law Project and on the Board of Directors of the Tor Project, supporting privacy and anonymity research and technology.