Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler

Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler is the Boxer Family Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the NYU Law School Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires, director of the Jacobson Program in Law and Business, and co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Organization. Her teaching and research interests are contracts, consumer contracts, privacy, electronic commerce, and the regulation of online transactions. Her published research has empirically addressed various problems associated with standard-form contracts online, such as the effectiveness of disclosure and information privacy regimes and whether people read the fine print. In 2009, she testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing titled “Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and Their Impact on American Consumers.” She is a co-reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts, a member of the European Law Institute, the Advisory Board of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Information Law and Policy at NYU School of Law