Abbey Stemler

Department: Business Law & Ethics

Campus: Bloomington

Biography

Professor Stemler is a leading scholar on the sharing economy. Her scholarship and teaching have garnered many national awards,

Internet Law, Regulatory Theory, Privacy Law, Big Data, Comparative Law, the “Sharing Economy”

Owner, Stemler Legal Services and Consulting, LLC (specializing in real estate and business law)
Owner, The Inkwell (a bakery and restaurant)
Owner, One-Eighteen, LLC (a commercial real estate and boutique hotel business)
Of Counsel, Associate & Summer Associate, Bose McKinney & Evans, LLP

Outstanding Junior Faculty Award [most prestigious honor at Indiana University for pre-tenured faculty], Indiana University (2020)
Academy of Legal Studies in Business Early Career Achievement Award [most prestigious honor given by the Academy to members who have been teaching and researching for fewer than nine years] (2020)
Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship in the category of Best Antitrust Article of 2019 on Privacy (with Gregory Day) (2019)
Harry C. Sauvain Undergraduate Teaching Award (2020)
Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors of 2020, Poets&Quants (2020)
Ralph Bunche Distinguished International Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business (with Justin Evans & Blake Himebaugh) (2019)
Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business (with Joshua Perry & Todd Haugh) (2019)
McGraw-Hill Education Distinguished Paper Award, MBAA International (with Gregory Day) (2019)
Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (2019)
Indiana University Bicentennial Medal, Indiana University (2019)
William G. Panschar Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (2014)
Order of the Coif (2011)
John Edwards Fellowship (2010)
Forte Fellowship (2010)
Phi Beta Kappa (2007)
Palmer Brandon Prize (2007)

Stemler, A., and Day, G. Are Dark Patterns Anticompetitive? 72 Ala. L.R. 1 (2020).
Stemler, A., Shackelford, S. J., Raymond, A., and Loyle, C. Defending Democracy: Taking Stock of the Global Fight Against Digital Repression, Disinformation, and Election Insecurity, 77 Washington and Lee Law Review 1747 (2020).
Stemler, A., Perry, J., and Haugh, T. The Code of the Platform, 54 Georgia Law Review 605 (2020).
Stemler, A., and Edelman, B. From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces, 56 Harv. J. on Legis. 141 (2019).
Stemler, A., and Day, G. Infracompetitive Privacy, 105 Iowa L.R. 101 (2019).
Stemler, A., and Woody, K. The Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Rebuilding A Nation: The Rwandan Model, 28 Minn. J. Int’l L. 367 (2019).
Stemler, A. Platform Advocacy and the Threat to Deliberative Democracy. 77 Md. L. Rev. 101 (2018).
Stemler, A., Shackelford, S. J., and Richards, E. L. Paris, Panels, and Protectionism: Matching U.S. Rhetoric with Reality to Save the Planet. 19 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 3 (2017).
Stemler, A. Feedback Loop Failure: Implications for the Self-Regulation of the Sharing Economy, 33 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 545 (2017).
Stemler, A. Myth of the Sharing Economy and Its Implications for Regulating Innovation, 2 Emory L.J. 197 (2017).
Stemler, A. Regulation 2.0: The Marriage of New Governance and Lex Informatica, 19 Vand. J. Entertainment & Tech. L. 87 (2016).

Edited on July 3, 2025