Frank PASQUALE

Professional Appointments

Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning. His books include The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press, 2015) and New Laws of Robotics (Harvard University Press, 2020). He has published more than 80 journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited The Oxford Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Transparent Data Mining for Big and Small Data (Springer-Verlag, 2017). 

Pasquale served on the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society from 2014-16, and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics from 2019-2021, where he chaired the Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. He also served on the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (2022-2024). In data protection law, his work is among the leading legal research on regulation of algorithmic ranking, scoring, and sorting systems, including credit scoring and threat scoring. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL), based in the Netherlands, and a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). 

Research Areas

The Black Box Society, has been recognized as a landmark study in information law. New Laws of Robotics analyzes the law and policy influencing the adoption of AI in varied fields. Pasquale’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He has long been ranked one of the top ten most cited scholars in Law & Technology in the U.S., ranking third in the most recent study.