About

Professor Zachary L. Catanzaro is an Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law School. His teaching and scholarship sit at the intersection of law and technology, with particular attention to algorithmic governance, digital sovereignty, and surveillance capitalism. He writes about how algorithmic systems can destabilize foundational legal categories by operating outside the assumptions those doctrines were built on.

His research has been published in leading journals, including the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal; the Florida Law Review; the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law and the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. His articles Algorithmic Dead Hands: What is Dead May Never Die and Sovereignty in the Technological Singularity received top-ten SSRN download awards. His forthcoming scholarship includes Sovereignty in the Technological Singularity in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, The Dead Law Theory: The Perils of Simulated Interpretation in the Florida Law Review, and two book chapters AI regulation. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office and delivered a TEDx talk, "Ghosts in the Machine." He presents nationally at bar associations, academic conferences, and continuing legal education programs in his field.

At Delaware Law, Professor Catanzaro teaches Civil Procedure, Property, and AI-Empowered Lawyering. He previously taught at Nova Southeastern University and St. Thomas University School of Law, where he directed the Intellectual Property Certificate Program.

Before entering full-time academia, Professor Catanzaro practiced as a cyberlaw, advertising, and intellectual property litigator in Florida, representing technology companies and entrepreneurs in multinational transactional and litigation related matters. He held leadership roles in the Florida Bar's Business Law Section, including the Digital Currency Task Force, the eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Committee, and the Standing Committee on Lawyer Advertising. His policy work includes white papers and legislative recommendations on technology law issues.

Professor Catanzaro earned his J.D. magna cum laude from St. Thomas University School of Law, where he served as Articles Editor of the St. Thomas Law Review. He interned with the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.