Anupam Chander is Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center.
The author of The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press), 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.
He has been a visiting law professor at Yale, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Cornell, and Tsinghua. He previously served as the Director of the California International Law Center and Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis.
A member of the American Law Institute, he has also served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, where he co-founded the International Law and Technology Interest Group. He serves as a judge of the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum.
He serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a faculty advisor to Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and a faculty affiliate of Yale’s Information Society Project. He is the founder of the Georgetown Global TechNet Working Group.
A recipient of an Andrew Mellon grant on the topic of surveillance and Google Research Awards, he has served on ICTSD/World Economic Forum expert groups on the digital economy and as a consultant to UNCTAD and the World Bank. He serves as the principal book reviews editor of the Journal of International Economic Law.
