Ellen P. Goodman is the associate dean of Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects. She specializes in information policy law: free speech,
media policy, privacy, data ethics, advertising, and digital platforms.
She is codirector and cofounder of the Rutgers Institute for
Information Policy and Law and is a frequent contributor to The Guardian. She's received a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant for a novel and a Ford Foundation Grant for work on public media policy.
Professor Goodman is currently a Pratt Fund grantee, collaborating on a public database on government use of predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence, and also on a real language tool for advocates of algorithmic accountability. She is also benefiting from a Democracy Fund grant to do thought leadership around policy responses to disinformation on information platforms. She has been a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grantee, conducting research on new legal challenges facing digital journalists, and a Ford Foundation grantee working on new models of public service media. She served as distinguished visiting scholar at the FCC and helped in
the production of a pathbreaking report, the "Information Needs of
Communities." She has been a Ford Foundation grantee, conducting
research on media policy principles for a networked age. She is
affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of
Communication and has been a senior visiting fellow at the London School
of Economics. Professor Goodman has served as an expert before the
National Academies of Science and Technology, the Federal Communications
Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration, Brookings Institution, and the Aspen Institute.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Professor Goodman was a
partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling LLP
and served as of counsel with the firm until 2009. Professor Goodman
has visited at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of
Communications, Wharton School of Business, and Law School, and has
been involved with Penn's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership
on green marketing issues. She has also been a fellow at the Rutgers
University Center for Cultural Analysis. Professor Goodman clerked for
Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the U.S. Federal District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after graduating from Harvard Law
School and Harvard College. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her
husband and three children, and enjoys running, swimming, biking, and
the odd reality show.
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