Chris Hoofnagle

Chris Hoofnagle is Professor of Law in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, a position he has held since 2020 following the granting of security of employment that year. He teaches cybersecurity, programming for lawyers, and torts. Hoofnagle earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in May 2000, with his writing requirement published as "Matters of Public Concern and the Public University Professor" in the Journal of College & University Law (2001), and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from the University of Georgia in December 1999. His prior appointments at Berkeley Law include Adjunct Full Professor from 2016 to 2020, Lecturer in Residence from 2009 to 2015, and Senior Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic from 2006 to 2015. He also serves as Professor of Practice at the School of Information since 2016, Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology since 2015, affiliated faculty with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing since 2020 and the Berkeley Institute for Security and Governance, of counsel to Gunderson Dettmer LLP since 2015, and on the boards of Constella Intelligence and Palantir Technologies. An elected member of the American Law Institute, the UC Berkeley Senate Divisional Council, and the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group, he previously worked at the Electronic Privacy Information Center from 2000 to 2006.

Hoofnagle's research addresses privacy law, cybersecurity, national security, quantum technologies, deterrence theory, consumer protection, cybercrime, antitrust law, competition law, and the General Data Protection Regulation. He co-founded the Privacy Law Scholars Conference in 2008 with Daniel Solove. His books include Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (with Simson Garfinkel, Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Cybersecurity in Context (with Golden G. Richard III, Wiley, 2024). Selected articles are "The European Union general data protection regulation: what it is and what it means" (Information & Communications Technology Law, 2019), "The Tethered Economy" (George Washington Law Review, 2019), "Designing for Consent" (Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 2018), and "Deterring Cybercrime: Focus on Intermediaries" (Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2017). He received the 2014 Multidisciplinary Privacy Award from the Conference on Privacy and Data Protection for "Behavioral advertising: the offer you cannot refuse."