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Technology regulation & digital policy
The rules, institutions, public-policy choices, and governance models that shape how digital technologies are developed, deployed, and controlled.
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Academic Leadership
Academic direction where technology meets law, governance, and public consequence.
Prof. Thais Pereira coordinates the College of Law Tech, guiding academic development across technology law, privacy, digital regulation, cybersecurity law, artificial intelligence governance, intellectual property, and emerging policy questions.
Academic Leadership
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Technology Law & Policy
Current Role
Prof. Thais Pereira
Coordinator, College of Law Tech
Law Tech exists because technical systems increasingly create legal and institutional questions that cannot be understood well when technology and law are studied in isolation. The College connects legal reasoning with the technical realities of digital systems, data, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, platforms, and emerging technologies.
Prof. Thais Pereira coordinates the College's academic direction around that intersection, helping shape a curriculum that can respond to changing regulation and policy without reducing technology law to a list of rules detached from the systems those rules govern.
- Institution
- San Jose Institute of Technology
- Academic field
- Technology Law & Policy
- College
- College of Law Tech
- Role type
- Academic coordination
Academic Direction
Areas shaping the academic direction of the role.
These themes describe the academic scope currently associated with this leadership role at SJIT. They are not presented as a complete personal research record or curriculum vitae.
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Privacy & data governance
Privacy, data protection, information governance, accountability, and the legal and organizational structures surrounding the use of personal and sensitive data.
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Cybersecurity law
Legal responsibility, security obligations, incident response, digital evidence, cybercrime, and the relationship between technical security and institutional accountability.
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AI governance & emerging technology
Legal and policy questions created by artificial intelligence, automated decision systems, intellectual property, platform power, and technologies whose regulatory frameworks are still developing.
Role at SJIT
Keep legal analysis connected to the systems, risks, institutions, and people that technology affects.
The coordinator guides curriculum development and academic priorities as the College expands across technology law and policy. The role is intended to connect legal reasoning, technical understanding, governance, ethics, and institutional decision-making so that students can examine not only what a rule says, but why it exists, what system it governs, and what consequences follow from its application.
Academic direction
Translate the College’s field into a coherent academic direction, balancing foundational knowledge, emerging technologies, and the needs of different student audiences.
Curriculum & program design
Guide the development and evolution of curricula, learning experiences, and program structures so that new offerings reinforce the College rather than becoming disconnected initiatives.
Academic experience
Help connect content, instructors, mentoring, feedback, applied work, and institutional expectations into a learning experience that remains consistent with SJIT’s academic model.
Responsible growth
Support the addition of faculty, programs, and areas of study when they strengthen the academic structure and can be sustained with appropriate quality and clarity.
College Connection
College of Law Tech
Explore the College of Law Tech to see the academic areas currently shaping SJIT's work at the intersection of technology, law, regulation, and policy.