Margaret Hu

Professor, Law
Director, Digital Democracy Lab
WILLIAM AND MARY LAW SCHOOL
Margaret Hu is the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School. She is a Faculty Affiliate with the Global Research Institute and Data Science at W&M, and a Research Affiliate with Pennsylvania State University’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. Her research focuses on the intersection of civil rights, national security, cybersurveillance, and AI. She is author of several notable works, including Biometric Cyberintelligence and the Posse Comitatus Act, Algorithmic Jim Crow, and Biometrics and an AI Bill of Rights. She is editor of Pandemic Surveillance: Privacy, Security, and Ethics (Elgar Publishing 2022). She previously served as Special Policy Counsel in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds degrees from the University of Kansas and Duke Law School.
Selected Publication
March 2024 • William & Mary Law Review 65(4), 839-892
Margaret Hu, Eliot Behar, Davi Ottenheimer
March 2024 • 92 Fordham Law Review, 1829-1853
Jun 2022 • 60 Duquesne Law Review 283-301
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Margaret Hu
Mar 2022 • 93 University of Colorado Law Review 325-365
Nov 2020 • 98 Texas Law Review Online 174-183
Aug 2020 • 7 Big Data & Society 1-6
Nov 2019 • 96 Washington University Law Review 1267-1335
Jun 2018 • 96 North Carolina Law Review 1425-1474
Dec 2017 • William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Sep 2017 • Fordham Law Review 86(2):633-696
Mar 2016 • Florida Law Review 67(5):1735-1809
Media Appearance
May 2020 • Christian Science Monitor