Prof Chinmayi Sharma

Chinmayi Sharma is an Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. Her research and teaching focus on open source, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, as well as regulation of and liability for technology harms.

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 member of the Global Academic Network at the Center for AI & Digital Policy, a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology, as well as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Strauss Center, and the Atlantic Council.

She is a contributing editor to Lawfare and has been quoted by the New York Times, NPR, ProPublica, Fortune, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, The American Lawyer, and Law360. Her Article calling for professionalization of AI engineers, “AI’s Hippocratic Oath,” was featured in the New York Review and her papers have been recommended on 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. Her work has been published in the California Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Washington Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and BYU Law Review.

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.