Amy Stein, J.D.
Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law
Levin College of Law
Amy L. Stein is an internationally recognized expert in energy and environmental law and policy, with a focus on variable energy resources, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. For the last 25 years, she has devoted her career to tackling the regulatory and policy obstacles to integrating innovative technologies such as renewable energy, energy storage, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and data centers into our legal frameworks.
As a lawyer, scholar and professor, Professor Stein has authored over 15 articles in top law reviews around the country, including the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation. Her work has received broad interest from professional organizations, industry leaders and scholars around the world, including an invitation to contribute a book chapter on the sustainability aspects of generative AI for the Oxford Handbook of the Foundation and Regulation of Generative AI, as well as a chapter for the Environmental Law Institute’s Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization, a project with a global consortium of researchers. Popular Science named Stein as one of the “Visionary Thinkers” for her work on algorithms and the climate crisis. Her forthcoming book with MIT Press highlights how Big Tech, AI and data centers are shaping our energy future.
In various roles over the last decade at UF Law, Stein has showcased her leadership within the university and on a national level. She served for many years as the Associate Dean for Curriculum for the law school and the faculty advisor for the law school’s Journal of Technology Law & Policy. She was the first to teach an Artificial Intelligence and the Law course at UF, exposing hundreds of law students to this important field over the past seven years. She serves as an affiliate faculty member of the university’s AI2 Center, the AI Working Group in AI Ethics and Policy and the Florida Climate Institute, as well as a member of the national Association of American Law Schools’ Natural Resources and Energy Law and Environmental Sections.
Professor Stein began her academic career at George Washington University Law School and Tulane Law School. Before her academic appointments, she practiced as an environmental and litigation associate for Latham & Watkins LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley offices.