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Abbey Stemler
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1275 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN
47405

Abbey Stemler

  • Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics
  • Weimer Faculty Fellow
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,

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Professor Stemler is a leading scholar on the sharing economy. Her scholarship and teaching have garnered many national awards, and she is frequently sought out for her expertise on platform-based technology companies, such as Facebook, Uber, and Google.

She has published multiple articles in leading journals such as the Iowa Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Maryland Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and Harvard Journal on Legislation. Her research explores the interesting spaces where law has yet to catch up with technology. In particular, her aim is to expose the evolving realities of Internet-based innovations and platforms and to find ways to effectively regulate them without hindering their beneficial uses. As she sees it, many modern firms inhabit a world that operates under alien physics—where free is often costly and “smart” is not always wise. She employs tools and insights from economics, behavioral science, regulatory theory, and rhetoric to understand how we, as a society, can better protect consumers, privacy, and democracy.

Professor Stemler is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center or Internet & Society at Harvard University, practicing attorney, entrepreneur (she sold her first business at age 29), and consultant for governments and multinational organizations such as the World Bank Group.

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Areas of Expertise

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

Academic Degrees

  • JD, Magna Cum Laude, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
  • MBA, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, 2011
  • BA, Highest Distinction, Indiana University-Bloomington

Professional Experience

  • 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

Awards, Honors & Certificates

  • 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)

Selected Publications

  • 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 October 6, 2021

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