New York Law School (NYLS) professor Ari Ezra Waldman has been selected by The National LGBT Bar Association as one of the 2016 “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.” This list honors the country’s most accomplished young LGBT legal professionals who have distinguished themselves in their field and demonstrated a strong commitment to LGBT equality.

Honorees were selected from law firms, non-profits, corporations, and the government. Waldman is the only professor selected this year.

“Professor Ari Ezra Waldman is an incredible advocate for the LGBT community here at New York Law School, and around the country, through his groundbreaking and innovative scholarship, teaching and leadership,” said NYLS Dean and President Anthony W. Crowell. “As director of the School’s Innovation Center for Law and Technology, through which he founded the Tyler Clementi Institute for CyberSafety, Professor Waldman serves the LGBT community with an incredible focus and energy.  We congratulate him on being recognized on a national level for his innovative work.”

Waldman, who grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, is Associate Professor and the Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at NYLS and an affiliate scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy.  He is the Founder and Director of the Tyler Clementi Institute for CyberSafety, a full service academic and direct outreach initiative that includes the first law school clinic providing free counsel to victims of cyberharassment. An expert on data privacy and online harassment, Professor Waldman’s scholarship has been published in leading law reviews and he is invited regularly to speak across the country on cyberharassment, data privacy, and marginalized communities. He often appears as an analyst on radio and television, including most recently on Syfy’s miniseries, “The Internet Ruined My Life.”  He serves on various boards and advisory committees, including the Tyler Clementi Foundation’s Board of Trustees and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission’s Data Privacy Working Group. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from Harvard College.

Professor Waldman’s work focuses on how to protect personal information in the digital age and how to combat the epidemic of cyberharassment facing women, LGBTQ persons, and other marginalized groups.

The National LGBT Bar Association “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40” honorees were announced June 22nd and will be awarded during the organization’s Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair in Washington, DC on August 5th.

About New York Law School

Founded in 1891, New York Law School (NYLS) is an independent law school located in the heart of New York City’s legal, government, financial, and emerging tech centers. Known as “New York’s law school,” NYLS embraces the City as its classroom by complementing a rigorous legal education with an innovative and diverse set of “uniquely New York” experiential learning opportunities. Since NYLS opened its doors 125 years ago, its graduates have gone on to hold high elected and appointed office in the City, lead large and small firms, and gain broad recognition as captains of business and industry. Our renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the School’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, business and finance law, media and information law, tax law, real estate, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. NYLS has more than 18,000 graduates and currently enrolls approximately 900 students in its full-time, part-time, and Two-Year Honors J.D. programs. The Law School also offers an advanced-degree program in Tax Law. NYLS has been ranked among the top law schools for clinical and experiential learning in New York State and nationally by the National Jurist for the past two years. It also received the highest available rating of “A” for its Intellectual Property and Technology Law programs in the Winter 2016 edition of National Jurist’s preLaw magazine. Readers of the New York Law Journal have ranked NYLS No. 1 for its Graduate Tax Program six years in a row. www.nyls.edu