Nathan Reitinger
Empirical Fellow in Law and Computer Science
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(312) 503-9583
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Biography
Nathan Reitinger is the Empirical Fellow in Law and Computer Science at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. His research integrates empirical and technical methods to study privacy, artificial intelligence, and the regulation of digital technologies. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in leading law reviews, including the Stanford Technology Law Review, American University Law Review, and Jurimetrics, as well as premier computer science venues such as the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, USENIX Security, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Michigan State University College of Law. Prior to joining Northwestern, he worked on technology and privacy matters with the Federal Trade Commission and the University of Michigan, and served in the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
Areas of Expertise
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Artificial Intelligence
- Privacy Law
- Quantitative Methods
- Technology Law
Selected Publications
- Measured Failures of robots.txt: Legal and Empirical Insights for Regulating Robots, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-53 (2025).
- Artificial Intelligence Is Like a Perpetual Stew, 73 American University Law Review 1535 (2024).
- Epsilon-Differential Privacy, and a Two-Step Test for Quantifying Reidentification Risk, 63 Jurimetrics 263 (2023)) (Co-authored by: Amol Deshpande).
- Privacy and Synthetic Datasets, 22 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (2019) (Co-authored by: Steven N. Bellovin & Preetam K. Dutta).
- What Does it Mean to Be Creepy? Responses to Visualizations of Personal Browsing Activity, Online Tracking, and Targeted Ads, 2024 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 715 (2024) (Co-authored by: Bruce Wen, Michelle L. Mazurek & Blase Ur).
- Is Cryptographic Deniability Sufficient? Non-Expert Perceptions of Deniability in Secure Messaging, 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 274 (2023) (Co-authored by: Nathan Malkin, Omer Akgul, Michelle L. Mazurek & Ian Miers).
Education
- PhD, University of Maryland
- MS, Columbia University
- JD magna cum laude, Michigan State University
- BA, University of Colorado






