Research Bio

Tejas N. Narechania is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. His scholarly focus is on the institutions of technology law and policy (including, for example, broadband regulation, platform governance, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property), among other subjects. He is also a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Before joining Berkeley Law, Professor Narechania clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has advised the Federal Communications Commission on network neutrality matters, where he served as Special Counsel. He has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he earned the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize and was the Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He also has a B.S. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and a B.A. (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Narechania’s research projects have appeared in interdisciplinary venues, from computer science proceedings to law reviews, including the California Law Review (and the California Law Review Online), the Columbia Law Review (and the Columbia Law Review Forum), and the Michigan Law Review (and the Michigan Law Review Online), among other outlets. His projects have won multiple awards, have been cited by several institutions (including the White House, the Supreme Court, the Federal Communications Commission, and the federal Courts of Appeals), and have appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other venues.

Research Expertise and Interest

administrative law, antitrust, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, law and technology, privacy and cybersecurity, telecommunications law, internet technology