Professor Chander Keynotes Privacy Conference in Japan

Professor Anupam Chander gave a keynote address at a conference on Personal Information Protection in Cross-Border Transfer, held at the Keidanren, the Japanese trade association on October 19, 2016.

Professor Chander’s talk, titled “U.S. Privacy Law and Cross-Border Data Flows,” addressed the mechanisms used by U.S. law to protect personal information, and also discussed the European Union and Asian Pacific Economic Community (APEC) cross-border data transfer mechanisms.

Professor Chander, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, is a leading scholar of international economic law and cyberlaw. He is the author of The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World in Commerce, published in 2013 by Yale University Press. His scholarly papers can be accessed via his Social Science Research Network author page.