Margot Kaminski
- Professor of Law
- Privacy Initiative Director, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship
- SILICON FLATIRONS
Margot Kaminski, Moses Lasky Professor of Law and the Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons, specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. She is co-author of a leading casebook on Artificial Intelligence Law (2026) with Paul Ohm and Andrew D. Selbst.
Professor Kaminski's work is informed by two Fulbright grants. In 2018, Professor Kaminski conducted research on comparative data privacy law as a recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant. In 2024, she conducted research on comparative AI Law at the European University Institute (EUI) as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and recipient of a 2024 Fulbright-Schuman Grant. She is an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
Professor Kaminski's academic work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Boston University Law Review, among others. Her work has received the 2025 Sandgrund Award for Best Consumer Rights Work at Colorado Law; the 2022 Jules Milstein Scholarship Award for excellence in legal scholarship; the Future of Privacy Forum's 2020 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award; the 2019 University of Colorado Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty; and the 2016 Junior Scholar Award at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (2016). She was recognized as one of the Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2024 and 2025, and her work has been in the top 10 in HeinOnline's Scholarly Impact Rankings in Law, Science, and Technology.
Prior to joining Colorado Law, Professor Kaminski was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (2014-2017) and served for three years as the Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She is a co-founder of the Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fairbanks, Alaska.