Patrick K. Lin

September 12, 2023

Patrick K. Lin co-teaches the Technology Law & Policy Clinic and the Science, Health & Information Clinic. He is also a Fellow at NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.

Patrick’s clinical work and research focus on privacy, copyright law, consumer protection, and the intersection of technology and civil rights. He is the author of Machine See, Machine Do, a book about how institutions use technology to surveil, police, and make decisions about the public, as well as the historical biases that impact that technology.

Previously, Patrick was a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy and clerked for a district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Earlier in his career, he worked at a litigation boutique and Latham & Watkins in New York. Patrick earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. During his studies, he interned with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, EFF, and FTC.