I am a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. I teach courses on tort law, artificial intelligence law, information privacy and data protection, and a seminar on law, technology and society. In 2024, I was the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and I’ve also taught at Fordham Law School.
I study the legal concepts through which law understands computational systems. Drawing on computer science, sociology, and science and technology studies, my scholarship examines how foundational legal ideas—including discrimination, fairness, explanation, responsibility, and speech—apply when human activity is increasingly mediated by computational systems. My work explores how legal doctrine gives technological systems legal meaning and, in doing so, shapes both legal outcomes and the governance of emerging technologies.
Prior to joining UCLA Law, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. I clerked for the Honorable Dolly M. Gee of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Before law school, I designed circuits.
Andrew Selbst 