• Nonresident Fellow

Emma Day

Emma is a human rights lawyer, specialising in children’s rights and technology. She holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of London (2010) and a second LLM in law and technology from UC Berkeley where she was a Fulbright scholar in 2019-2020. She qualified as a solicitor and barrister in Canada in 2010.

Emma has been working on human rights issues for more than twenty years and has lived for five years in Eastern Africa and six years in Southeast Asia. She is currently based in the UK where she works as a consultant for UNICEF and for the 5Rights Digital Futures Commission, focusing on child sexual exploitation online, data governance for children, and EdTech governance in schools. Emma is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.