LAIC Program Faculty - March 2026
Meet our distinguished faculty of international academics, regulators and practitioners.
Kate Aishton
Founder
Aishton Law, PC
Paul Belonick
Professor of Practice & Faculty Assistant Director, Center for Innovation
UC Law San Francisco
Dean Ball
Senior Fellow
Foundation for American Innovation
Matthew Butterick
Author, typographer, programmer, and AI litigator
Butterick Law PC
Jason Buttura
Senior Product Counsel
Stack Overflow
Pamela Chestek
Board Member
Open Source Initiative
Damien Charlotin
Senior Research Fellow; Curator of AI Hallucination Cases Database
HEC Paris
Jason Clinton
Deputy CISO
Anthropic
Iain Cunningham
VP & Deputy General Counsel
NVIDIA
Shashi Deb
LexLab Research Fellow
UC Law San Francisco
Kate Downing
Principal
Law Offices of Kate Downing
Evan Epstein
Executive Director, Center for Business Law
UC Law San Francisco
David Evan Harris
Chancellor's Public Scholar
UC Berkeley
Alex Feerst
Chief Legal Officer
Science
Robin Feldman
Distinguished Professor and Director of AI Law & Innovation Institute
UC Law San Francisco
Robert Friedman
Partner
King & Spalding
Catherine R Gellis
Attorney, Writer
TechDirt
Ernest Hammond III
Associate GC of AI Product
Meta
Karla Haynes
VP & Deputy GC, Global Trade Compliance
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Nathan Labenz
Founder & Former CEO
Waymark
Jo Levy
Partner
The Norton Law Firm
Anat Lior
Assistant Professor
Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Karman Lucero
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Yale Law School
Svetlana Matt
Director, Public Policy
DISH Network
Nicole Ozer
Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy
UC Law San Francisco
Ryan Tsang
Founder
Recona
Erin Park
Managing Counsel, Privacy
Datadog
John Pavolotsky
Partner
Stoel Rives LLP
Mark Pike
Associate General Counsel
Anthropic
Morris Ratner
Provost & Academic Dean
UC Law San Francisco
Vasileios Rovilos
EU Policy Director
Credo AI
Fred von Lohman
Strategic Advisor
Open AI
Graham Webster
Lecturer; Research Scholar; DigiChina Editor-in-Chief
Stanford University
Kevin Xu
Staff Software Engineer
GitHub
Shannon Yavorsky
Co-Head of AI Practice Group
Orrick
Program Directors and Permanent Faculty
Drew Amerson
Director of LexLab
UC Law San Francisco
Tal Niv
Director of Applied Innovation
UC Law San Francisco
Cornelia Kutterer
Adjunct Professor
UC Law San Francisco
Alisa Sedneva
open-source licensing & AI
UC Law San Francisco
