Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer is Strategy Lead and Counsel at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where she leads the Consortium's new work development, including on privacy, security and web payments. She researches openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads Lumen Database, (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse) bringing transparency to online takedown demands. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and communication.

Wendy has been a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy and the University of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Boulder. She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information Privacy at American University Washington College of Law, Northeastern Law School, and Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, privacy and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Education

• JD Harvard Law School
• AB Harvard College (1992 — 1996)

Companies

• Counsel and Strategy Lead World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2012)
• Founder and project lead Lumen Database (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse) (2001)
• Fellow, Advisory Board, Affiliate Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (1999)
• Senior Google Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School (2011 — 2012)
• Fellow Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (2010 — 2011)
• Fellow Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, & Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Law School (2009 — 2010)
• Visiting Prof American University Washington College of Law (2008 — 2009)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Northeastern University School of Law (2007 — 2008)
• Visiting Fellow Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (2007 — 2007)