Amanda Levendowski Tepski is an award-winning advocate and artist focused on  technology law and justice. She works as a Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP, pronounced eye-pip) Clinic, which produces creative legal and sociotechnical work for justice-minded artists, nonprofits, and coalitions. Her research has informed international discourse and Clinic matters about face surveillance, biased AI systems, secret surveillance tools, nonconsensual intimate imagery, and library accessibility. In 2021, Public Knowledge recognized her as a 20/20 Visionary, one of twenty future leaders in technology policy.

Professor Tepski publishes her articles and essays in leading law journals, and her work has been covered by 60 Minutes, 99% Invisible, The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, and the US Copyright Office, as well as supported by fellowships with Gender+ Justice and Center for Transnational Legal Studies. Her forthcoming book, How Lawyers Can Shape Good Technologies (U. Cal. Press 2027), establishes lawyers’ duty of "sociotechnical competency" and encourages lawyers to consider a full SLATE of issues—an acronym for sustainability, labor, accessibility, transparency, and equity—raised by technologies like AI. Her first book, Feminist Cyberlaw (U. Cal. Press 2024), was an open-access anthology co-edited with Meg Leta Jones that explores how gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class shape cyberspace and the laws that govern it.

Beyond her scholarship, Professor Tepski advises the Disabled Law Students Association, the Office of Accessibility Services, and the Accommodations Committee on strategies to create a just educational environment for disabled students. She also creates art—including perfumes, poems, and prints—inspired by her work. Her letterpress print, librarians warned us, received the People’s Choice Award at the Pyramid Atlantic Membership Mashup and was selected for the juried Press On exhibition.

While teaching at Georgetown Law, Professor Tepski was chosen as a Visiting Summer Privacy Institute Professor at Maine Law, where she designed an immersive course using surveillance video games and simulated lawyering exercises to teach privacy justice. She joined Georgetown from NYU Law, where she co-taught the Technology Law and Policy Clinic. She previously practiced at Cooley and Kirkland & Ellis in New York. Professor Tepski developed her BA in Publishing, Copyright, and Technology at NYU, summa cum laude, where she was a Mock Trial National Champion and two-time All-American. She earned her JD from NYU Law, where she was awarded the Walter J. Derenberg Prize for copyright law and nominated to the Order of the Barristers.

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Professor Amanda Levendowski Tepski is an award-winning advocate and artist focused on technology law and justice. She works as a Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP, pronounced eye-pip) Clinic, which produces creative legal and sociotechnical work for justice-minded artists, nonprofits, and coalitions. Her work has informed international discourse and Clinic matters about how technologies harm people marginalized by gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class. In 2021, Public Knowledge recognized her as a 20/20 Visionary, one of twenty future leaders in technology policy. She lives in Washington DC with her husband and cat, Waffles.