LAIC Program Faculty
Meet our distinguished faculty of international academics, regulators and practitioners. These speakers joined us for the July 2025 session and many will return in December 2025. Stay tuned for an updated speaker list!
Robin Feldman
Distinguished Professor and Director of AI Law & Innovation Institute
UC Law San Francisco
Fred von Lohman
Strategic Advisor
Open AI
Shelley McKinley
Chief Legal Officer
GitHub
Eddan Katz
AI Policy Manager
Meta
Ashley Pantuliano
Deputy General Counsel
Open AI
Isabel Hahn
Policy Officer for AI
European Union AI Office
AJ Shankar
CEO & Founder
Everlaw
Yonatan Zunger
Deputy CISO and CVP, AI Safety & Security
Microsoft
David Evan Harris
Chancellor's Public Scholar
UC Berkeley
Anthony Bourached
Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Creative AI
University College London
Pamela Chestek
Board Member
Open Source Initiative
Olga V. Mack
CEO, Author
TermScout, Legal Operations in the Age of AI
Shannon Yavorsky
Co-Head of AI Practice Group
Orrick
Ernest Hammond III
Associate GC of AI Product
Meta
Iain Cunningham
VP & Deputy General Counsel
NVIDIA
Alex Feerst
Chief Legal officer
Science
Kate Downing
Principal
Law Offices of Kate Downing
Mark Pike
Associate General Counsel
Anthropic
Shashi Deb
Adjunct Professor & Member of the Board of Directors
UC Law San Francisco
Luis Villa
VP, Legal
Sonar
Todd Smithline
CEO and Founder, Bonterms
Bonterms, UC Berkeley
Kevin Xu
Staff Software Engineer
GitHub
Amir Ghavi
AI, Tech Transactions & IP Partner
Paul Hastings LLP
Catherine R Gellis
Attorney, Writer
TechDirt
Evan Frondorf
Partnerships, Safeguards
Anthropic
Nathan Labenz
Founder & Former CEO
Waymark
Harry Borovick
General Counsel, Author of "AI and the Law"
Luminance
Kate Aishton
Founder,
Aishton Law, PC
Umair Kazi
Director of Policy & Advocacy
The Authors Guild
Ryan Tsang
Founder
Recona
Chris Painter
Head of Policy
METR
Pablo Chavez
Founder & Principal
Tech Policy Solutions
Laura Caroli
Senior Fellow at the Wadhwani AI Center
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
John Pavolotsky
Partner
Stoel Rives LLP
Emmie Hine
Research Associate at the Digital Ethics Center (DEC)
Yale University
Karla Haynes
VP & Deputy GC, Global Trade Compliance
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Morris Ratner
Provost & Academic Dean
UC Law San Francisco
Paul Belonick
Professor of Practice & Faculty Assistant Director, Center for Innovation
UC Law San Francisco
Evan Epstein
Executive Director, Center for Business Law
UC Law San Francisco
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
