Short version: Hannah Bloch-Wehba (“block-WEEba”) is a law professor at Texas A&M University School of Law who studies, teaches, and writes about law and technology. she’s particularly interested in how technology can be used to conceal power and evade accountability across a variety of contexts, including in law enforcement and national security.
Long version: Hannah Bloch-Wehba is a leading scholar and expert on law and technology. Her research focuses on how the adoption of new technologies is remaking public governance, with consequences for civil liberties, transparency, and accountability. Her articles on these topics have twice been selected through anonymous peer review for the Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, and have appeared or are forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Brooklyn Law Review, BYU Law Review, California Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, and many other journals.
She is also an Affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Social Values (ST&SV) Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study; an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project; an Affiliated Scholar at NYU School of Law’s Policing Project. In 2024–2025, Bloch-Wehba was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 2025, she was the Microsoft Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, Bloch-Wehba taught at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
Bloch-Wehba is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was an Institute for International Law & Justice/Law and Security Scholar, and of the University of Texas at Austin. From 2016–2018, she was a supervising attorney in Yale Law School’s Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, a law student clinic dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression by providing pro bono legal services, pursuing impact litigation and developing policy initiatives. Previously, Bloch-Wehba was the inaugural Stanton Foundation National Security–Free Press Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and worked as a litigation associate at Baker Botts LLP.