Marc Rotenberg

Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Center on AI and Digital Policy at the Michael Dukakis Institute.[1] Governor Dukakis announced the new Center on July 1, 2020.[2] The Center is working with the Boston Global Forum and the Club de Madrid to promote the Social Contract for the Age of AI.[3] The Center also plans to publish the AI Social Contract Index, the first attempt to evaluate and rank national AI policies and practices.

Marc edited and published the AI Policy Sourcebook (2019, 2020), the first reference book on AI policy.[4] 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 (2016)"[5] and "The Battle over Artificial Intelligence (2019)".[6] Marc also helped launch the campaign in 2014 for Algorithmic Transparency.

Marc has served on many national and international advisory panels, including expert panels for the American Bar Association (technology and law), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (future of the Internet), the Aspen Institute (AI Roundtable, privacy, communications networks), the Association for Computing Machinery (scientific freedom and human rights), the Institute of Medicine (medical privacy), the International Telecommunications Union (countering spam), the National Academy of Sciences (big data and privacy), the OECD (privacy, crypto, computer security, risk assessment, AI, digital economy), UNESCO (cyberspace law, InfoEthics, Internet indicators), and the U.S. Senate (communications privacy). He is on the editorial boards of the European Data Protection Law Review and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. He is a founding 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,[7] the FREE Group (European Area of Freedom Security & Justice),[8] and other organizations dedicated to the protection of civil liberties and fundamental rights. Marc was recently named to the "United Nations 2045 Initiative Board," a new undertaking, sponsored by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Boston Global Forum, to create models for a smart, innovative, effective, peaceful, and secure world in 2045.

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 (1983),[9] Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1985), the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference (1991),[10] the Electronic Privacy Information Center (1994), the Public Voice Coalition (1996), the Public Interest Registry - .ORG (2003), the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council to the OECD (CSISAC) (2009),[11] and the EPIC Public Voice Fund (2017).[12]

Marc Rotenberg is co-author, with Professor Anita L. Allen, of Privacy Law and Society (West Academic 2016),[13] a leading casebook on privacy law, and co-editor of Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions (The New Press 2015), a collection of articles on the future of privacy.[14] Other books include The AI Policy Sourcebook (EPIC 2020), The Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments (EPIC 2020),[15] Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments (EPIC 2006), Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws (EPIC 2010), Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007) and "Privacy and Technology: The New Frontier" (MIT Press 1999). 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.[16]

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 (the first African American appointed as a commissioner on any regulatory commission) 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 (2012) 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.

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, an ESL teacher in Alexandria and the District of Columbia public schools. A tournament chess player, Marc is a three-time Washington, DC Chess Champion (2007, 2008, 2010), and he works to promote chess in the DC public schools in cooperation with the US Chess Center and ChessGirlsDC.

• Georgetown Law biography for Marc Rotenberg