Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University. The author of “The Electronic Silk Road,” he is an expert on the global regulation of new technologies. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Chander has been a visiting law professor at Yale, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Cornell University, and Tsinghua University. He also previously served as the Director of the California International Law Center and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at University of California, Davis. A member of the American Law Institute, Chander served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, where he co-founded the International Law and Technology Interest Group. He has also participated in the ICTSD/World Economic Forum expert groups on the digital economy, consulted the World Bank and UNCTAD, and received the Google Research Award and an Andrew Mellon Grant on the topic of surveillance. He currently serves as a judge of the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum, a principal book reviews editor of the Journal of International Economic Law, an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a faculty adviser to Georgetown’s Institute for Technology and Law Policy, a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a faculty affiliate of Yale’s Information Society Project, and a Georgetown University Senate Vice President.
