Professor Chander Speaks at Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

On April 1, 2016, Professor Anupam Chander spoke on a panel on the relationship of trade agreements to digital freedoms at RightsCon, the Silicon Valley human rights conference. The conference brings together academics, activists, and companies.

The panel was titled "TPP: Is Trade Policy putting Digital Rights at Risk?"

Other panelists were from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Public Citizen, Public Knowledge, and Internet right groups in Latin America.

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.