Kenneth A. Bamberger

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The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
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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 the founding faculty director of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, which hosts Berkeley’s Program on Jewish Law, Thought and Identity, and the campus’s Program on Israel Studies.

Prof. Bamberger is an expert on the governance of technology, expression, and information privacy in both the United States and Europe. At Berkeley, he teaches Administrative Law, the First Amendment (Speech and Religion), Privacy Counseling and Compliance, the Law and Technology Writing Workshop, and Jewish Law.

For his recent 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 2016 Privacy Leadership Award from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Bamberger is a Fellow at the Federmann Cyber Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a founding board member of the Israel Tech Policy Institute, and the U.S. academic director of the Tel Aviv-Berkeley Executive LLM Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

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