Jordan Smith is a non-residential fellow at the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology. Her research explores how U.S. and European nations have sought to regulate the digital sphere and how those efforts by one region to regulate the internet influence the laws of the other region and sometimes lead to conflicting rules. Her current work explores how European and U.S. constitutional protections of speech influence their different approaches to regulations aimed at online platforms.

Her prior work has been published in the University of Virginia Journal of International Law, including an article about the Court of Justice of the European Union’s 2024 Google Ireland & Others case and how it demonstrates tension between EU and individual European nations’ approaches to regulating online platforms. She has also published an article in the Pepperdine Journal of Law, Business, Entrepreneurship, & Finance regarding the internal costs of the “Brussels Effect,” exploring the economic impact of European digital regulations on the European tech sector.

Jordan has practiced at several law firms, including Boyden Gray PLLC and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, both in Washington, D.C., representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of civil litigation, including appellate, constitutional, and white collar crime matters. Before joining the Center, she clerked for Judge Raymond Gruender on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She currently practices at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP, where her work focuses on cyber-related civil litigation.

Jordan earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her bachelors degree from Brigham Young University. She recently completed an LLM in Information & Innovation Law at NYU Law School.