 Steve McDonald
is General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as Associate
Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University. He has handled a number of Internet-related
legal matters, ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student web
pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the cat.
He began his legal career at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he represented
CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case, and he also has taught
courses in Internet law at Ohio State’s College of Law and at Capital University Law
School. He is a past member of NACUA’s Board of Directors and is the editor of its
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium. In State, ex rel.
Thomas v. The Ohio State University, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that he really is a
lawyer. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. |
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 Beth Cate is Associate General Counsel for Indiana University. One area of particular focus
for her is the law and ethics concerning the use of information technologies. Beth is also
an adjunct member of the faculty in the University's School for Public and Environmental
Affairs. Before joining the University in 1998, Beth served as in-house counsel for Eli
Lilly and Company, practicing in a variety of areas; clerked for the Hon. S. Jay Plager of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and practiced with the law
firm of McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna Long & Aldridge) in Washington D.C. Beth
holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard
Law School. She is also a past member of NACUA's Continuing Legal Education Committee.
Beth is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Indianapolis Zoo and a weekend volunteer
helping to care for the Zoo's African elephants, including her adopted elephant daughter,
Tombi. She tries to refrain from comparing the university setting to a zoo, but frequently
fails. |
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 Tracy Mitrano is the director of
IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies
at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she will take her seat as its Treasurer
in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member
of its faculty, chair of Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 the
co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team. A member of
the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership
Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University
of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law
class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell,
Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she
teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet." |
