Chris Hoofnagle
Co-Faculty Director, CLTC
Professor of Law in Residence, UC Berkeley School of Law
Email: choofnagle@berkeley.edu
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is Professor of Law in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he teaches cybersecurity, programming for lawyers, and torts. He is affiliated faculty with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and the Center for Security in Politics, a Professor of Practice in the School of Information, and CLTC’s faculty director.
Hoofnagle’s new book with Simson Garfinkel, Law and Policy for the Quantum Age is now available (open access) from Cambridge University Press, which also published his first book, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (2016).
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Hoofnagle is of counsel to Gunderson Dettmer LLP, serves on boards for Constella Intelligence and Palantir Technologies, and is a member of the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG). Hoofnagle is an elected member of the UC Berkeley Senate Divisional Council (DIVCO).
With Professor Daniel Solove, Hoofnagle founded the Privacy Law Scholars Conference.
