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Florencia Marotta-Wurgler is a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Her specialties are contract law and commercial law. Much of her research involves e-commerce and contracting on the Internet. Her official NYU Law web page is here.
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Biography
Marotta-Wurgler was born in Buenos Aires. She obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where she was departmental valedictorian, and a J.D. from the NYU School of Law in 2001, where she was Robert McKay Scholar and winner of the Daniel G. Collins Prize for Excellence in Contract Law.
Before her appointment at the NYU in 2006, she worked as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, completed a fellowship at Fordham Law School’s Center for Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law, and completed a Wagner fellowship at the NYU Center for Law and Business.
She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Internet and Computer Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has testified in the U.S. Senate on deceptive Internet sales tactics.
Marotta-Wurgler has taught Contracts, Topics in E-Commerce, Sales, Corporations, and a Research Seminar for Future Academics.
Research
Marotta-Wurgler’s research has focused on standard form contracting (boilerplate) on the Internet. Most of her papers can be downloaded here on SSRN.