Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. She is an expert on European Union law, digital regulation, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law.
Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (OUP 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology was published by Oxford University Press in September 2023. It was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. The European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen named Bradford her Special Advisor in 2025. Bradford is advising EVP Virkkunen on digital governance issues in the global and Transatlantic context.