About
MJ Sterling
Law, policy, technology — and who gets to own what technology makes.
Photograph by Tom Maday
MJ Sterling’s work sits where technology meets law and policy. It runs from creative work into digital assets, financial infrastructure, and the public-policy debates now reshaping all three.
MJ Sterling is a pen name. She is a policy writer and analyst — not a licensed attorney — and nothing published here is legal advice.
That perspective is grounded in years of close, hands-on work in the field — industry education, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy — and in the rooms where technologists, financial institutions, and lawmakers try to arrive at clearer, more workable rules.
“How do the people who make things keep ownership of what they make, as the systems around them change?”
The question behind the work
The writing here aims to translate those conversations for the people affected by them but rarely in the room — with attention to intellectual property, financial innovation, and the protections that let creators share in the value built on their work.
MJ is now preparing for the formal study of law, carrying a practical, people-first perspective into a more rigorous legal frame.
Areas of focus
- Intellectual property & creative-industry rights
- Technology law & financial innovation
- Digital assets & blockchain policy
- Emerging-technology governance
In practice
- Plain-language analysis of complex policy
- Briefings and reports for non-specialists
- An independent, non-partisan perspective
- Attention to the people affected