Research Bio

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is a Professor of Law in Residence at Berkeley Law, and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.  He helps students from different disciplinary perspectives understand the effects of law on technology. He teaches tort law, cybersecurity, privacy, consumer protection, forensics, and seminars on new technologies. He holds a dual appointment with the School of Information.

Hoofnagle is author of Cybersecurity in Context (Wiley 2024), Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (Cambridge 2022), and Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (Cambridge 2016).

Hoofnagle is an elected member of the American Law Institute and maintains a private law practice focusing on venture, emerging technology, and intel- and defense-tech. With his brother Professor Mark Hoofnagle (Washington University), he modeled the concept of "denialism," rhetorical techniques that are common in disinformation campaigns.

Research Expertise and Interest

consumer protection, internet law, privacy, computer crime, criminal procedure, law and technology, public choice theory, federal trade commission, federal communications commission, class action litigation, cyber security, cybersecurity, quantum information, national security