LAIC Program Faculty - July 2026
Here is the distinguished faculty of international academics, practitioners and policymakers who will join us for the July 2026 LAIC program.
Kassi Burns
Counsel
King & Spalding
Kate Downing
Principal
Law Offices of Kate Downing
Iain Cunningham
VP & Deputy GC
Nvidia
Keith Enright
Chief Strategy Officer
Harvey
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
James Gaely
Standardization Lead
SaferAI
Catherine R Gellis
Attorney, Writer
TechDirt
Ernest Hammond III
Associate GC of AI Product
Meta
Mark Gray
Copyright Policy Counsel
OpenAI
Karla Haynes
VP & Deputy GC, Global Trade Compliance
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Eddan Katz
Head of Policy & Government Affairs
Encypher
Katharina Koerner
Senior Principal Consultant - AI Governance
Trace3
Anat Lior
Assistant Professor
Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Britt Lovejoy
Partner
Latham & Watkins
Svetlana Matt
Director, Public Policy
EchoStar
Léo Murgel
VP Product Partnerships & Community Engagement
Ironclad
John Pavolotsky
Partner
Stoel Rives LLP
Steve Reeder
Global Head of Competition
TikTok
Paul Sieminski
Chief Legal Officer
Liquid AI
Kristin Sverchek
Former President & General Counsel
Lyft
Ryan Tsang
Co-founder
Harmonize Health
Luis Villa
Vice President, Legal: Product & Policy
Sonar
Kevin Xu
Staff Software Engineer
GitHub
Yonatan Zunger
Deputy CISO & CVP, AI Safety & Security
Microsoft
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
CLO & Co-Founder
Scrydon
Alisa Sedneva
open-source licensing & AI
UC Law San Francisco
