Chinmayi Arun is Executive Director of the Information Society Project (ISP) and a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where she has taught AI Law and Policy.
Her scholarship focuses on how law and policy should account for major technology companies as transnational actors. Arun writes in particular about frontier AI and social media, drawing on transnational law, torts, and constitutional law. Her work examines how the technology industry affects political rights, especially of disempowered people. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review Forum and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review and Texas Law Review. At the ISP she convenes the Law and Technology Lectures and Ideas Lunches, and leads a community of resident and affiliated fellows. She earlier founded and directed the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi, where she was Assistant Professor of Law. Her work is informed by her experience as a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations, a board member of the Global Network Initiative, and an advisor to bodies including UNESCO and UN Global Pulse. She holds a B.A. LL.B. from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School.
