July 26-27, 1999
Montreal, Canada

Speaker Biography

Elizabeth deGrazia Blumenfeld Deputy Director, Legal and Brand Policy
America Online, Inc.

Elizabeth deGrazia Blumenfeld, Deputy Director, Legal and Brand Policy at America Online, Inc., develops AOL Inc.'s legal policies for its various brands, including AOL, CompuServe, and Netscape. She focuses primarily on those policies which impact the various brands' members, including privacy and kids safety, advertising standards, news and political content, and the member agreement.

She also co-chairs the Internet Law Subcommittee of the ABA's Cyberspace Law Committee, Business Section and is an Advisory Board Member of BNA's Electronic Information Policy and Law Report.

Prior to joining AOL, Ms. Blumenfeld was Staff Attorney at the Washington Post newspaper. Ms. Blumenfeld graduated from Yale Law School in 1993 and clerked for United States District Judge Harold H. Greene in Washington, D.C. She received her BA, junior Phi Beta Kappa, from The University of Chicago in 1988.

Since joining AOL, Ms. Blumenfeld has written about, and spoken on, a wide variety of cyberspace matters, including privacy, intellectual property, advertising and e-commerce issues for the PLI and other organizations.

She has published articles about privacy and publisher liability on the Internet and has co-authored an article and an ABA book on web-linking agreements.