Chinmayi Sharma
Associate Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae
[email protected]
Tel: 212-636-6832
Faculty Assistant: Diane Pinero [email protected]
Areas of Expertise
Cybersecurity, Platform Liability, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Internet Governance, Interoperability, and Computer Crime
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Chinmayi Sharma is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. Her research and teaching focus on open internet governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and computer crime.
She is an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Principles of Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Microsoft Responsible AI Committee. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology, as well as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Strauss Center, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Atlantic Council, and the Institute for Law & AI.
She is on the Lawfare masthead and has been quoted by the New York Times, NPR, ProPublica, Law360, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law. Her Article calling for professionalization of AI engineers, “AI’s Hippocratic Oath,” was featured in the New York Review and her papers have been recommended on the Legal Theory Blog. Her Article on open source software security, “Tragedy of the Digital Commons,” has been included in the Hague's International Cyber Security Bibliography. Before joining academia, Chinmayi worked at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, a telecommunications law firm in Washington, D.C., clerked for Chief Judge Michael F. Urbanski of the Western District of Virginia, and co-founded a software development company.