Chinmayi Sharma

Chinmayi Sharma is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. Her research and teaching focus on open internet governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence accountability, computer crime, and software liability.

She is an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Principles of Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Microsoft Responsible AI Committee. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Strauss Center, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Atlantic Council, and the Institute for Law & AI. She is a member of the program committee for the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law and the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).

She is on the Lawfare masthead and has been quoted by the New York Times, NPR, ProPublica, Law360, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law. Her Article calling for professionalization of AI engineers, “AI’s Hippocratic Oath,” was featured in the New York Review and the Legal Theory Blog. Her Article on open source software security, “Tragedy of the Digital Commons,” has been included in the Hague's International Cyber Security Bibliography and featured in Schneier on Security. Before joining academia, Chinmayi worked at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, a telecommunications law firm in Washington, D.C., clerked for Chief Judge Michael F. Urbanski of the Western District of Virginia, and co-founded a software development company.