Elizabeth Rothman is an attorney in the emerging technology and healthcare sectors. She is also adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and on the faculty for PatentX, a course on patent law and global public health offered jointly by Harvard Law School and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Rothman is co-editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (2025) and publishes on intellectual property, generative AI, and the legal and policy issues surrounding technological innovation. Recent works include “Disrupting Creativity: Copyright Law in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence” (Florida Law Review, 2023), chapters in the Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism (Edward Elgar, 2024) and the Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar, 2025), contributions to the Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values Index (CAIDP, 2025), and the Global Community Lab Report on Policy and Governance Implications of Open Foundation AI Models (XRSI, 2024). She is also the author of Physician Employment Contracts: The Missing Module, a resource designed to equip physicians with knowledge to help negotiate employment agreements.
She earned her JD from Lewis & Clark Law School and holds certificates in Artificial Intelligence Policy (CAIDP), blockchain solutions architecture (CBSA), Python programming, and an executive certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy.
