Anu Bradford

Professor, Columbia Law School

Anu Bradford holds the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization chair at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. Bradford earned her doctorate degree and LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki.

Anu Bradford is an expert on international trade, competition policy, and technology policy. She is a sought-after commentator on digital regulation, including the governance of artificial intelligence.

Her award-winning book “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World” (2020) was reviewed as “one of the most important books on Europe’s global influence to appear in a decade.” and it has shaped public discourse on the EU’s role in the world and garnered extensive media attention.

Her latest book “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology” was published in September 2023. The book shows how the global battle among three dominant digital powers — the United States, China, and Europe — is intensifying as they are racing to regulate tech companies, each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while expanding its sphere of influence in the digital world.

Bradford’s research and public commentary has been featured in the top international news outlets, including BBC World, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, CNBC, CNN Business, El Pais, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.