Yana Welinder

Position / Title: 
Junior Affiliate Scholar
Contact: 
ywelinder@cwsl.edu

Yana Welinder is a Visiting Assistant Professor at California Western School of Law, where she teaches E-Commerce Law and Information Privacy Law. Her research focuses on Internet law, privacy, face recognition technology, and human-computer interaction. Before joining California Western, she served as a Google Policy Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and completed a Summer Academic Fellowship at Harvard Law School. She holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from University of Southern California, and an LL.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent and forthcoming work include A Face Tells More than a Thousand Posts: Developing Face Recognition Privacy in Social Networks, 26 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 165 (2012) and Facing Real-Time Identication in Mobile Applications, 30 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal __ (2013).