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Kenneth A. Bamberger
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 446 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-6218
Email Address: kbamberger@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Joanna M. Hooste
Kenneth Bamberger's research focuses on the involvement of a variety of institutions--public and private--in governance. In particular, he writes on the allocation of decisions between governance actors, the role of corporate compliance in public administration, and questions of technology in governance. He teaches courses in Administrative and Constitutional Law, Torts, Corporate Compliance and Legal Practice, and Jewish Law.
Bamberger has published on administrative law and regulation in the NYU Law Review, Duke Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. His forthcoming article in the Texas Law Review, "Technologies of Compliance," considers implications of the increased use of technology and automation in regulatory compliance and risk management.
With Professor Deirdre Mulligan at the UC Berkeley School of Information, Bamberger is principal investigator on a qualitative empirical study of chief privacy officers and corporate privacy practices. He is also co-principal investigator on an experimental study considering the effect of classified information on decision-making.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bamberger served as President of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter. Between clerkships, he was a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General.
Bamberger came to Berkeley Law in 2005 from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C., where his appellate litigation and counseling practice involved issues arising from the regulation of business. In practice, Bamberger represented clients in federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Previously, he served as chief-of-staff for the Senate chair of the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Health Care, and as a management consultant.
At Berkeley Law, Bamberger is an affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society, and is the faculty advisor to the California Law Review.
Education:
B.A., Harvard University (1990)Henry Fellow, Cambridge University (1991)
J.D., Harvard University (1998)
