James Dempsey
Senior Policy Advisor / Technology & Governance Lecturer, Stanford Program on Geopolitics / UC Berkeley Law School
Jim Dempsey is senior policy advisor at the Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance and a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He is the co-author, with John Carlin, of Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals (2d ed. 2024). From 2012 to 2017, Jim served, after Senate confirmation, as a member of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Other experience includes executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, leadership positions at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a non-profit organization focused on internet policy, and assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. He is a frequent contributor on cybersecurity law to Lawfare and IAPP Privacy Perspectives.