Neil Richards

Koch Distinguished Professor
Washington University

Neil Richards holds the Koch Distinguished Professorship at Washington University School of Law, where he co-directs the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, an affiliate scholar with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and the Yale Information Society Project, and an Emeritus Fellow of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Professor Richards serves on the advisory boards of the Future of Privacy Forum and the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is a member of the American Law Institute. He writes, teaches, and lectures about the regulation of the technologies powered by human information that are revolutionizing our society. He is the author of Why Privacy Matters (Oxford Press 2022) and Intellectual Privacy (Oxford Press 2015). His award-winning writings on privacy and civil liberties have appeared in a wide variety of media, from the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal to The Guardian, WIRED, and Slate. He has served as an expert in a number of high-profile privacy cases, including the Schrems litigation in Dublin and serving as the Consumer Privacy Ombudsman in the 23andMe bankruptcy.