Anu Bradford — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research in 2024 for her book 'Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology'.
Serves as the Henry L. Moses Distinguished Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School.
Coined the term 'Brussels effect' in 2012, which refers to the European Union's unilateral ability to regulate global markets.
Author of 'The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World' (2020) and 'Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology' (2024).
Earned an L.L.M. from the University of Helsinki (2000), a Master of Laws from Harvard (2002), and an S.J.D. from Harvard (2007).

Biography

Anu H. Bradford, born Anu Piilola in 1975 in Tampere, Finland, is a Finnish-American author, law professor, and expert in international trade law. She completed her L.L.M. degree at the University of Helsinki in 2000. She then attended Harvard Law School on a Fulbright Scholarship, earning a Master of Laws degree in 2002 and an S.J.D. degree in 2007 after working in Brussels on EU competition law.

Bradford joined the faculty at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of law in 2008.