S.J.D., Harvard Law School, 2007
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2002
Licentiate in Laws, University of Helsinki, 2001
Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2000
European Union Law
Digital Regulation
International Trade Law and International Political Economy
Comparative and International Antitrust Law
A leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, Anu Bradford coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets. She is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published in September 2023. It was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times, and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
At the Law School, Bradford is the Director of the European Legal Studies Center. She is also a senior scholar at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, Bradford was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She also practiced EU law and antitrust law in Brussels; and has served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland, and as an expert assistant at the European Parliament. The World Economic Forum named her Young Global Leader ’10.
Bradford is a frequent keynote speaker at events hosted by universities, think tanks, international organizations, governments, and companies, in the United States and internationally. Her research and public commentary is regularly featured in top international news outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers, the United States, China, and the European Union, is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative follow-up to The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford explores a rivalry that will shape the world in the decades to come.
Financial Times: “Europe and the U.S. Won’t Win the AI Race by Depriving Themselves of Talent”
Financial Times: “The Global Order of Digital Empires is Only Just Holding Together”
Foreign Affairs: “The Race to Regulate Artificial Intelligence”
New York Times: “Meta May Allow Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe to Pay to Avoid Ads”
New Yorker: “Can the Internet Be Governed?”
Project Syndicate: “Whose AI Revolution?”
Wall Street Journal: “How Apple Lost to the EU”
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In her new book, the Columbia Law professor explores the emerging battle between techno-democracies and techno-autocracies that will shape the future of our digital society.