Frank Pasquale is a professor of law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning. His books include “The Black Box Society” and “New Laws of Robotics,” both from Harvard University Press. He co-edited “The Oxford Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” and “Transparent Data Mining for Big and Small Data.” His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
Pasquale served on the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society from 2014 to 2016, and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics from 2019 to 2021, where he chaired the Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. He also served on the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee from 2022 to 2024. He has advised business and government leaders in the healthcare, internet, and finance sectors, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce Committees, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies and NGOs. He has also advised officials in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Pasquale’s work on algorithmic accountability has applied social scientific and philosophic insights to AI law and policy. In media and communication law, he has developed a comprehensive legal analysis of barriers to, and opportunities for, regulation of Internet platforms. In privacy law and surveillance, his work is among the leading legal research on regulation of algorithmic ranking, scoring, and sorting systems, including credit scoring and threat scoring. In health law, he has written a series of articles addressing both technological and financial challenges to U.S. healthcare institutions.
Pasquale is an affiliate fellow at Yale University’s Information Society Project and a member of the American Law Institute. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law in the Netherlands and a member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society. He served as a distinguished visiting faculty member at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2023. Pasquale graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.