Stacey Steinberg
Master Legal Skills Professor
Director, Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic
Director, Program on Children and Families
Stacey Steinberg is the supervising attorney for the Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic and Director of the Program on Children and Families. Her scholarship examines how children’s privacy and welfare are shaped by both parents and the platforms that profit from family sharing online — from her foundational work on “sharenting” to her current research on holding social media companies accountable for the harms their design choices foreseeably cause children.
Steinberg is an internationally recognized voice on children’s digital rights, working alongside researchers and policymakers across the U.S., U.K., Europe, and beyond, including collaborations tied to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on the Digital Environment. Her work has been cited by news and research organizations including NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and UNICEF, and published in venues spanning law, pediatrics, and communication studies — including JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Pediatrics Open Science, and the Journal of Consumer Affairs, alongside leading law reviews. She has presented her research to audiences including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Association of American Law Schools, the University of Geneva, the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and events affiliated with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Steinberg served as a felony prosecutor handling crimes involving child abuse, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), domestic violence, and rape. She has served as lead counsel in hundreds of contested hearings. As a practitioner, Steinberg routinely provided training to lawyers, police officers, and social workers on matters relating to child abuse, neglect, and trial procedure. Professor Steinberg has also worked as a Senior Attorney for Children’s Legal Services.
Education
J.D., University of Florida
B.A., University of Florida
Expertise
Appellate Advocacy, Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Welfare, Children's Privacy, Children's Rights, Digital Citizenship, Family Law, Legal Writing, Sharenting, Social Media
Courses
- Child, Parent, and State
- Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic
Teaching & Scholarship
Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
Juvenile Law
Publications
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- Dogs as a Tool in Trauma Responsive Lawyering, U. Ill. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
- Child Exploitation Through Online Sharing: “Sharenting” and the Role of the Pediatric Provider, 2 Pediatrics Open Sci.1 (June 2026) (with c. Rosenthal) (peer-reviewed)
- Beyond Sharenting, 99 S. Cal. L. Rev. 559 (2026)
- Children’s Privacy in the Digital Age: US and UK Experiences and Policy Responses, in Handbook of Children and Screens (with Livingstone, S., Lievens, E., Graham, R., Pothong, K., Stoilova, M.),(Christakis, D.A., Hale, L., eds.), Springer, Cham (2025) (peer-reviewed)
- The Myth of Children’s Online Privacy Protection, 77 SMU L. Rev. 441 (2024)
- Children Seen but Not Heard?, 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 147 (2024)
- Adopting Social Media in Family and Adoption Law, 2023 Utah L. Rev. 447 (with students M. Burgess and K. Herrera)
- The Art of Sharing: Children’s Rights in the Influencer Era, 3 Fla. Ent. & Sports L. Rev. 17 (2023)
- Exploring Parents’ Knowledge of Dark Design and Its Impact on Children’s Digital Well-Being, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (2023) (with Bessant, C., Ong, L.L., Cook, L.A., Grubbs Hoy, M., Pereira, B., Fox, A., Nottingham, E., Gan, P.) (peer-reviewed)
- Sharenting in an Evolving Digital World: Increasing Online Connection and Consumer Vulnerability, 56 J. Consumer Aff. 1106 (2022) (with L. Lin Ong, Alexa K. Fox, Laurel Aynne Cook, Claire Bessant, Pingping Gan, Mariea Grubbs Hoy, Emma Nottingham, & Beatriz Pereira) (peer-reviewed)
- The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on the Digital Environment, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (2022) (with Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third, Patrick Burton, Sabine Witting, Eva Lievens, Shuli Gilutz, & David Souter) (peer-reviewed)
- Documented: My Week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, 30 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 99 (2019)
- Changing Faces: Morphed Child Pornography Images and the First Amendment, 68 Emory L.J. 909 (2019)
- What Parents Should Share: Child Privacy in the Age of Social Media and the Pediatrician’s Role, Pediatrics (2018) (with Bahareh Keith)
- Sharenting: Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media, 66 Emory L.J. 839 (2017)
- Parental Sharing on the Internet: Child Privacy in the Age of Social Media and the Pediatrician’s Role, JAMA Pediatrics (with B. Keith) (May 2017) (peer-reviewed)
- #Advocacy: Social Media’s Power to Transform Law, 105 Ky. L.J. 413 (2016)
- Where Did All the Social Workers Go? The Need to Prepare Families for Adoption, Assist Post-Adoptive Families in Crisis, and End Re-Homing, 67 Fla. L. Rev. F. 280 (2016)