Principles for a

Data Economy

Conducted jointly with the European Law Institute, this project will study, identify, and collate the existing and potential legal rules applicable to transactions in data as an asset and as a tradeable item and assess the “fit” of those rules with these transactions.

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The project was approved by ALI's membership at the 2021 Annual Meeting (download Tentative Draft No. 2). Preparation of the official text is in progress.

Because of the innovative, joint approach of this project, the structure of the project varies somewhat from the traditional ALI structure. The project developed a set of transnational Principles to provide guidance to parties in the data economy, as well as to courts and legislators worldwide. Because data does not have a “location,” the goal is to have a common set of Principles that would apply wherever the parties happen to be.

All ALI draft approvals are subject to the discussion at the meeting and usual editorial prerogative.

For a detailed look at this project visit the Data Economy page on The ALI Adviser.

Reporters

Neil B. Cohen Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY

Christiane C. Wendehorst University of Vienna, Department of Civil Law
Vienna, Austria

Chair

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Essex Court Chambers
London, England

Steven O. Weise Proskauer Rose LLP
Los Angeles, CA

Consultant

Anupam Chander Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC

Christopher S. Yoo University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Philadelphia, PA

Advisers

Susan Bennett IRi
Chicago, IL

Hannah Bloch-Wehba Texas A&M University School of Law
Fort Worth, TX

Amelia H. Boss Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Julie S. Brill Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA

Sarah C. Dodds-Brown American Express
New York, NY

Stacy-Ann Elvy University of California, Davis School of Law
Davis, CA

Lindsey Finch Salesforce.com
San Francisco, CA

Ivan K. Fong Medtronic PLC
Minneapolis, MN

Ahmed Ghappour Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA

James Grimmelmann Cornell Law School
New York, NY

Anton G. Hajjar Chevy Chase, MD

Teresa Wilton Harmon Sidley Austin LLP
Chicago, IL

Michele C. Kane The Walt Disney Company (Retired)
Burbank, CA

Harold Hongju Koh Yale Law School
New Haven, CT

Lucy H. Koh U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
San Francisco, CA

Travis LeBlanc Cooley LLP
Washington, DC

Henry Lebowitz Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
New York, NY

Ronald D. Lee Arnold & Porter
Washington, DC

Michael Leiter Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Washington, DC

Lance Liebman Columbia Law School
New York, NY

Christina Mulligan Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY

Stephen Satterfield Facebook Inc.
Washington, DC

Christopher H. Schroeder Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC

Paul M. Schwartz University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA

Jeewon K. Serrato Baker Hostetler
San Francisco, CA

Peter P. Swire Georgia Tech, Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
Atlanta, GA

Liaison

Stephen Yee Chow Stephen Y. Chow, PC
Boston, MA

Members Consultative Group

Marc T. Amy Jones Walker LLP
Lafayette, LA

Christopher Edward Appel Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC

Tom Baker University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Philadelphia, PA

Ian C. Ballon Greenberg Traurig, LLP
East Palo Alto, CA

Joseph R. Bankoff Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Peter V. Baugher Baugher Dispute Resolution LLC
Chicago, IL

Shawn J. Bayern Florida State University College of Law
Tallahassee, FL

Michael M. Baylson U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Spyridon V. Bazinas Vienna, Austria

Jeffrey A. Beaver Miller Nash LLP
Seattle, WA

Mary Beckman Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
Boston, MA

Ashutosh A. Bhagwat University of California, Davis School of Law
Davis, CA

Matthew T. Bodie University of Minnesota Law School
Minneapolis, MN

Willard L. Boyd, III Nyemaster Goode, PC
Des Moines, IA

Harvey G. Brown, Jr. The Lanier Law Firm PC
Houston, TX

Timothy W. Burns Burns Bair LLP
Madison, WI

John P. Burton Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A.
Santa Fe, NM

Stephen Calkins Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, MI

Jonathan G. Cedarbaum George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC

Colleen V. Chien University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA

Sylvia Fung Chin White & Case LLP
New York, NY

Yee Wah Chin Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP
New York, NY

Wayne Dale Collins Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC

Giovanni Comandé Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy

Michelle Williams Court U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Los Angeles, CA

Anuj C. Desai University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI

Robert P. Deyling Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Washington, DC

Tobias A. Dorsey Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President at the White House
Silver Spring, MD

Christopher R. Drahozal University of Kansas School of Law
Lawrence, KS

Marek Dubovec International Law Institute (ILI)
Tucson, AZ

Arthur W. S. Duff The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Wayne, PA

Richard L. Field Law Office of Richard Field
Cliffside Park, NJ

Daniel M. Filler Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Mark E. Foster Law Offices of Mark Foster
Walnut Creek, CA

Meredith Fuchs Plaid Inc.
Washington, DC

Henry D. Gabriel Elon University School of Law
Greensboro, NC

Marvin Garfinkel Gladwyne, PA

Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons University of Toledo College of Law
Toledo, OH

Daniel C. Girard Girard Sharp LLP
San Francisco, CA

Dorothy J. Glancy Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara, CA

Philip S. Goldberg Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC

John M. Golden University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX

David C. Gray University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Baltimore, MD

I. Michael Greenberger University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Baltimore, MD

Charles E. Griffin Butler Snow LLP
Ridgeland, MS

David W. Gruning Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Abita Springs, LA

Peter E. Halle Coconut Grove, FL

Richard Anthony Hodyl, Jr. Hinkhouse Williams Walsh LLP
Chicago, IL

Edwin E. Huddleson Washington, DC

Howard O. Hunter Singapore Management University Law School
Singapore, Singapore

Robert A. James Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
San Francisco, CA

Kirk C. Jenkins Half Moon Bay, CA

Sandra A. Jeskie Duane Morris LLP
San Diego, CA

Dalié Jiménez University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA

Kristin N. Johnson U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Washington, DC

Curtis E.A. Karnow Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Amy Keller DiCello Levitt
Chicago, IL

Catherine Kessedjian University Paris-Panthéon-Assas
Paris, France

Nancy S. Kim Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago, IL

Christopher M. Klein U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California
Vancouver, WA

Renee Knake Jefferson University of Houston Law Center
Houston, TX

Peter R. Kochenburger Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, LA

David N. Kragseth Guy Carpenter & Co.
Philadelphia, PA

William K. Kroger Baker Botts L.L.P.
Houston, TX

John Linarelli University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, PA

Houston Putnam Lowry Ford & Paulekas, LLP
Hartford, CT

Thomas S. Lue DeepMind
Mountain View, CA

Meghan H. Magruder King & Spalding LLP (Retired)
Atlanta, GA

C. Scott Maravilla U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Washington, DC

Lorelie S. Masters Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Washington, DC

James C. McKay, Jr. Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Washington, DC

A. Douglas Melamed Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA

Charles W. Mooney, Jr. University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Retired)
Amherst, NH

Juliet M. Moringiello Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Harrisburg, PA

Barak Orbach University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Tucson, AZ

Nancy Leeds Perkins Arnold & Porter
Washington, DC

Jeffrey M. Pollock Pollock Law, LLC
Princeton, NJ

Iain D. C. Ramsay University of Kent Law School
Canterbury, England

R. Anthony Reese University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA

Dan Robbins Motion Picture Association, Inc.
Calabasas, CA

Jacob H. Rooksby Gonzaga University School of Law
Spokane, WA

Keith A. Rowley University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Las Vegas, NV

Hans Schulte-Nölke European Legal Studies Institute
Osnabruck, Germany

Victor E. Schwartz Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC

Paul M. Secunda Walcheske & Luzi, LLC
Brookfield, WI

Joaquin Silguero Estagnan General Council of the Judiciary
San Sebastián, Spain

Kenneth W. Simons University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA

David L. Sloss Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara, CA

George Prescott Slover Center for Democracy & Technology
Washington, DC

Douglas G. Smith Alpheus LLC
Chicago, IL

Mary L. Smith VENG Group
Lansing, IL

Paul B. Stephan University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA

H. Mark Stichel RKW Law Group
Baltimore, MD

Guy Miller Struve Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired)
New York, NY

Mary-Christine Sungaila Complex Appellate Litigation Group
Newport Beach, CA

Rick Swedloff Rutgers Law School
Camden, NJ

Louise Ellen Teitz Roger Williams University School of Law
Bristol, RI

Lucy L. Thomson Livingston PLLC
Washington, DC

Michael Troncoso Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
San Diego, CA

Sjef van Erp University of Amsterdam
Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Ari Ezra Waldman University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA

Lauren E. Willis Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Jane K. Winn University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, WA

Peter A. Winn U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Washington, DC

Christopher Wolf Hogan Lovells US LLP
Washington, DC

Peter K. Yu Texas A&M University School of Law
Fort Worth, TX

Data Economy

Conducted jointly with the European Law Institute, this project will study, identify, and collate the existing and potential legal rules applicable to transactions in data as an asset and as a tradeable item and assess the “fit” of those rules with these transactions.

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