Northeastern Law Welcomes New Faculty Members
Sarah Lageson, an expert on technology, surveillance and data privacy in the criminal legal system, will join the Northeastern community on January 1, 2025, as associate professor of criminology/ criminal justice and law with the School of Law and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice within the College of Social Sciences. Lageson is currently an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation and previously held appointments at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark as an associate professor and with Columbia University’s Department of Sociology and Universitat Pompeu Fabra School of Law in Barcelona as a visiting scholar.
Lageson’s empirical research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Law & Society Review, Social Forces, Criminology and Law & Social Inquiry, and legal venues, including the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and the University of Illinois Law Review. Her book, Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data- Driven Criminal Justice, was published by Oxford University Press and won awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Law and Society Association and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference. She holds a JD from Rutgers Law School, a PhD and MA in sociology from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.
David Stein joined the Northeastern community on July 1 as assistant professor of law and computer science within the School of Law and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Stein previously served as the Frank J. Guarini Scholar of Global Law and Technology at NYU School of Law, where he was also a fellow at the Information Law Institute and taught a course on the regulation of global technologies.
Stein studies the interplay between emerging technologies and legal institutions. His research has appeared in venues such as the Wisconsin Law Review, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal and the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Before entering the academy, he spent a decade in the tech industry, including roles as an early software engineer at Dropbox, director of product engineering at Braze and cybersecurity lead for Sidewalk Labs, Google’s smart city initiative. He is the named inventor on seven patented digital identity and database management technologies. Stein holds a JD from NYU School of Law and an MEng and SB from MIT.
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