Dr. Mehtab Khan

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Mehtab Khan is an Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University College of Law, where he teaches intellectual property, artificial intelligence law, and technology-related subjects. His expertise includes copyright law and platform governance, with recent scholarship focusing on accountability frameworks for AI training datasets and automated content moderation. Mehtab previously served as a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and was the Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries Information. As a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, his work examined the impact of AI on creative industries. He has held affiliations with Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy at UC Berkeley. His doctoral work at Berkeley Law focused on the role of internet platforms in shaping fair use. Prior to his academic career, Mehtab practiced law in the United States, Malaysia, and Pakistan and worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He holds an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Berkeley Law.

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