Chinmayi Sharma

Chinmayi Sharma is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. She was formerly a Scholar in Residence at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on open internet governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence accountability, computer crime/criminal procedure, torts, and administrative law.

She is a Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center and a Non-Resident Scholar with the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Atlantic Council. She is also affiliated with the Transatlantic Cyber Forum, Foreign Policy for America (FP4A), the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is on the program committee for the CS & Law Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and the ACM Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses workshop.

She has written extensively for Lawfare and has been quoted by NPR, ProPublica, the New York Times, Law360, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law. Her scholarship has been included in the Hague's International Cyber Security Bibliography and featured on the Legal Theory Blog and 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.