María P. Angel

Assistant Professor María P. Angel will join the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in the fall of 2026 and will lead courses in the areas of torts, data privacy, and AI law and policy.

Angel most recently served as a resident fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She has also held lecturer positions at the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, the Universidad Externado de Colombia and the Universidad del Rosario. 

A Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of the book The Datafied Public Administration, Governing through Big Data. She has also published: “From Privacy to the Data Economy: The FTC’s Reframing of its Regulatory Priorities” in the Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming), “Privacy’s Algorithmic Turn” in the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law and “Distinguishing Privacy: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy” in the Columbia Law Review (co-authored). 

Angel earned her bachelor’s and law degrees from the Universidad de los Andes and her LL.M. in administrative law from the Universidad del Rosario. In 2024, she received her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Washington, where she served as an articles editor of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. She received a Westin Scholar Award from the International Association of Privacy Professionals and was named one of eight 2024 Rising Stars in AI Ethics by Women in AI Ethics.