Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law with a Master’s Degree in Library Science and Legal Information Management. Lamdan graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law, where she earned an environmental law certificate and was awarded the Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Roth Energy Law Award. She teaches administrative law, environmental law, data privacy, information access, and government transparency courses.

Professor Lamdan’s 2017 reference book Environmental Information: Research, Access & Environmental Decisionmaking (Environmental Law Institute) is a resource for journalists, scientists, and researchers who rely on government science. Her forthcoming book, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press), studies data analytics companies and calls for treating our critical information resources like a public good, and for creating digital infrastructure that reflects our information ideals.

When she’s not teaching, Professor Lamdan is active in national information access and data privacy research and policymaking. She is a SPARC Senior Fellow and a fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law. She’s also a member of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) and a co-chair of the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Community Oversight Council.

Professor Lamdan works with immigration groups on government surveillance issues, with library advocacy organizations on open access and researcher privacy projects, and with open government advocates on federal records preservation and access initiatives. She provides seminars on freedom of information laws and gives speeches and talks to scholars and practitioners about data analytics and privacy issues in academia and beyond.

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Email
sarah.lamdan@law.cuny.edu
Phone
718-340-4563
Office
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