Kenneth A. Bamberger is The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Faculty co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, and is a core faculty member of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB).
Prof. Bamberger is an expert on technology, government regulation, and corporate compliance, in both the United States and Europe. At Berkeley, he teaches Administrative Law; First Amendment (Speech and Religion); Torts; Privacy Counseling and Compliance, the Law and Technology Writing Workshop; and Jewish Law.
For his book, Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe, Bamberger and his co-author, Berkeley I-School Prof. Deirdre Mulligan, were awarded the Privacy Leadership Award from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
His current work addresses: How to Structure Content Moderation; Platform Market Power; Using Cryptography to Supplement Law’s Efforts to Protect Privacy and Confidentiality; and Jewish Law Insights for the Big Data Age.
Bamberger graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review. Before coming to Berkeley Law, he clerked for federal appeals court Judge Amalya L. Kearse and U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the United States Solicitor General, and was an associate, and then counsel, at the Wilmer Hale firm in Washington, D.C.
Outside the law school, Bamberger currently serves on the academic advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum, and is a founding board member of the Israel Tech Policy Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at the Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation at Tel Aviv University, and the U.S. academic director of the Tel Aviv-Berkeley Executive LLM Program.
Prof. Bamberger has served on the Board of Trustees of the Leo Baeck Institute, and has been a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University Law School, a Fellow at the Federmann Cyber Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Visiting Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. In 2017, he was selected for the U.S. Department of Commerce-European Commission list of arbitrators developed as part of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.
(Photo credit: Danielle Mehler)
Education
B.A., Harvard University (1990)
Henry Fellow, Cambridge University (1991)
J.D., Harvard University (1998)
Kenneth A Bamberger is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2024.
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Spring 2025 | 201 sec. 001 | Torts | 223 sec. 002 | Administrative Law | Spring 2024 | 201 sec. 001 | Torts | 223 sec. 001 | Administrative Law | View Teaching Evaluation | 265.4 sec. 001 | Jewish Law | View Teaching Evaluation | Spring 2023 | 220.9 sec. 001 | First Amendment | View Teaching Evaluation | 223 sec. 001 | Administrative Law | View Teaching Evaluation |
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