Chris Hoofnagle

Chris Jay Hoofnagle focuses on the interplay of law and technology. He teaches torts, cybersecurity, consumer protection, python programming, and seminars on new technologies. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, and the Center for Security in Politics.

 

Hoofnagle’s forthcoming book is Cybersecurity in Context (with Golden Richard III, 2024). He is also the author of Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (with Simson Garfinkel, Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

 

Hoofnagle is of counsel to Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. In Spring 2024, Hoofnagle is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.