Professor · Attorney · Librarian Tucson, Arizona
Areas of interest
Teaching and Research · Rochelle Law, PLLC
I am an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona College of Information Science, where I teach copyright and intellectual property law and serve as faculty advisor for the Master of Arts in Library and Information Science. I hold a JD from the City University of New York School of Law and an MLIS from the University of Arizona.
Before the academy, I was a trial attorney in public defenders' offices in Arizona and New Mexico, and served as a civil rights advisor for Title IX at the University of New Mexico. The law is only as fair as people's access to it, and information is only as free as the systems that hold it.
Alongside my scholarship and teaching, I maintain a selective litigation practice through Rochelle Law, PLLC.
Scholarship
Studying how the United States actually regulates artificial intelligence: the patchwork of state statutes, federal enforcement, and agency action filling the space where no comprehensive AI law exists — and how copyright, securities, and consumer-protection law have become AI law by default.
Authorship, training data, fair use, and ownership questions.
A dynamic field taught as one — where students trace how IP doctrine is quietly becoming the front line of AI regulation.
The values and institutions of librarianship — intellectual freedom, equitable access, and the public's right to know — as a foundation for the profession.
The Advocacy
My commitment to social justice predates every other line on this page. As a public defender, I represented people the system was built to process rather than hear. As a Title IX civil rights advisor, I worked inside an institution to make its protections real.
Today that commitment centers on access to information for incarcerated and detained people — the populations for whom library services, legal materials, and basic information access are most restricted and most consequential. I work with national initiatives expanding information access behind the walls, and bring that work into my teaching and scholarship.
Inquiries
I welcome inquiries about scholarship, speaking engagements, media comment, and consultation. I am not accepting requests for legal representation.