Anupam Chander | |
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Born | 1967 (age 57–58) |
Citizenship | American |
Education | Harvard University (BA), Yale Law School (JD) |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Employer | Georgetown University Law Center |
Website | www |
Anupam Chander (born 1967) [1] is an American lawyer. He is currently the Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and an expert on the global regulation of new technologies.
Chander holds a B.A. from Harvard University. [2] He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1992. [3] After graduating, he served as a law clerk 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. [4] He has practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Hong Kong. [5] Prior to his current position, Chander was a professor of law at the UC Davis School of Law and director of the California International Law Center. [6]
Chander is the author of numerous law review articles [7] and has written three books: The Electronic Silk Road (2013), Internet Law: Statutory Supplement (2019), and Fred Korematsu: All American Hero (2011) with co-author Madhavi Sunder. [8] He also edited Securing Privacy in the Internet Age (2008) with co-editors Lauren Gelman and Margaret Jane Radin. [9]
The Electronic Silk Road has been reviewed by several academics and is regarded as a balanced [10] and important contribution to discussion on internet law, international trade and globalization studies. [11]
Chander's work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, [12] the California Law Review, [13] and the American Journal of International Law. [14]
In 2020, Chander was quoted in articles by Business Insider, [15] CNN [16] and Forbes [17] regarding proposals by the Trump Administration to ban TikTok from the United States over national security and data privacy concerns. Chander wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post [15] on this issue and also appeared as a guest on NPR's Planet Money podcast. [18]
In 2014, Chander received a Google Faculty Research Award for his research in policy and standards. [19] In the same year, Chander and other University of California scholars [20] received a grant of $175,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a Sawyer Seminar titled "Surveillance Democracies?" at UC Davis. [21]
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