Andrew Sellars
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BU/MIT STUDENT INNOVATIONS LAW CLINIC
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
BS, Northeastern University
JD, The George Washington University School of Law
Biography
Andrew Sellars is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the founding director of the Technology Law Clinic, a legal service for undergraduate and graduate students at MIT and BU. In the clinic, BU Law students counsel clients on laws and regulations that affect their research, advocacy, and innovation, including intellectual property, media law, data privacy, and cybersecurity law. Sellars has overseen the legal representation of hundreds of student clients through his work in the clinic, representing computer security researchers, public interest advocates on technology and society issues, creators of innovative new technologies, and student journalists. His scholarship focuses on application of intellectual property and computer access laws to technology research and journalism, including permissionless investigation of technology systems.
- Profile Types
- Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship, and Professors & Clinical Instructors
- Areas of Interest
- Intellectual Property, Law & Technology, Media & First Amendment Law, and Privacy
Publications
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Azer Bestavros, Stacey Dogan, Paul Ohm & Andrew Sellars, Bridging the Computer Science – Law Divide November 2022 CSLAW '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Symposium on Computer Science and Law (2022)
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Data Generated by New Technologies and the Law: A Guide for Massachusetts Practitioners
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Andrew Sellars, Twenty Years of Web Scraping and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 24 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2018)
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Andrew Sellars, Defining Hate Speech (2016)
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In the Media
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The Justice February 6, 2024
‘Dialogue & Action in an Age of Divides’: Discussing Free Speech
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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Mass Media February 2, 2024
Massachusetts Universities Host Dialogue on Free Speech
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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The Heights January 31, 2024
“Dialogue and Action” Panelists Weigh Free Speech and Hate Speech on University Campuses
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2023
Can Threads, the ‘Friendly’ Twitter, Make Social Media Nicer?
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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WBUR July 14, 2023
Mass. Could Be First State to Ban Sale of Cell Phone Location Data
Andrew Sellars is interviewed.
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BU News Service March 27, 2023
State Senator Drafts Legislation to Regulate Tools like ChatGPT—with the Help of ChatGPT
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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Wired July 12, 2021
GitHub’s Commercial AI Tool Was Built From Open Source Code
Andrew Sellars is quoted.
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TechTaraget January 17, 2021
Big Tech’s Uneasy Balance of Capitalism, Censorship
Andy Sellars is quoted.
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Nieman Lab October 30, 2020
Facebook’s Threat to the NYU Ad Observatory Is an Attack on Ethical Research
A piece by Andy Sellars.
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MIT News July 16, 2020
BU-MIT Law Clinics Help Students Bring Innovations into the World
BU Law clinics featured.
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February 14, 2020
Vote on Your Phone? BU School of Law Clinic Helps Expose Security Flaws in Voter App
Andy Sellars interviewed in <em>BU Today</em>.
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January 27, 2020
Clearview’s Face Surveillance Shows Why We Need a Strong Federal Consumer Privacy Law
Andrew Sellars quoted in <em>Electronic Frontier Foundation<em/>.
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August 14, 2018
Plastic Guns, Nuclear Bombs, and the Endless Debate Over Free Speech and Public Safety
Andrew Sellars quoted in "Plastic Guns, Nuclear Bombs, and the Endless Debate Over Free Speech and Public Safety," WGBH.
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August 2, 2018
The Very Good Reason Why the 3D-Printed Gun Plans Need to Be Available
Andrew Sellars authored "The Very Good Reason Why the 3D-Printed Gun Plans Need to Be Available" Slate.
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Stories from The Record
Activities & Engagements
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