Mehtab Khan

I am an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where I teach Intellectual Property, AI Law, and Law & Tech. I also teach 1L Property Law.

 

My scholarship includes copyright law, platform governance, and artificial intelligence. My recent academic scholarship includes articles AI and Access to Knowledge, and the governance of Cultural Property. My previous works include developing an accountability framework for large-scale AI training datasets, regulating automated content moderation and online speech tools, and the impact of AI on the creative industries.

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I was previously a Fellow (2023-2024) at the Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University. My research at BKC examined ways of governing the practices involved in developing and deploying AI technologies.

 

Before Harvard, I was a Resident Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information.

 

Additionally, I have been a visiting researcher at Stanford HAI. I am a recipient of numerous grants to work on the use of AI in hiring. In 2019, I was a Fellow at the Center for Technology, Society and Policy and a Research Grantee at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

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My doctoral dissertation, completed at Berkeley Law, examined the role of internet platforms in shaping fair use. This research was partly inspired by the challenges internet users face in accessing knowledge and the ways platforms like Google and Wikipedia navigate complex copyright rules to make knowledge more accessible.

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I am a licensed attorney and have previously worked as a lawyer in the United States, Malaysia, and Pakistan. I have held positions at the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—three Bay Area institutions that have been at the forefront of many legal battles around digital rights. I have an LLM and JSD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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