Bio
Anu Bradford is a professor at Columbia Law School and a leading authority on the European Union, digital economy, governance of artificial intelligence, and global economic regulation. She is also Director of Columbia's European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School.
Bradford's award-winning book The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World was published in 2020 and was named one of the best books of the year by Foreign Affairs. Princeton University's Andrew Moravcsik described it as "the single most important book on Europe's global influence to appear in a decade." Her latest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (2023), explores the growing competition among Europe, the United States, and China to shape the future of technology regulation and the digital economy. The book was named one of the Financial Times' best books of 2023.
Anu Bradford earned her doctoral degree and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and also holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki.