Jane Bambauer

Brechner Eminent Scholar
University of Florida

Jane Bambauer is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the College of Journalism and Communications and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.

Her research examines the social costs and benefits of big data, artificial intelligence, and predictive algorithms. She studies how regulation of emerging information technologies affects free speech, privacy, law enforcement, health and safety, competitive markets, and government accountability.

Before joining the University of Florida, Bambauer served as a professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Earlier, she was a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

She also serves as chair of the National AI Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Law Enforcement and previously served as deputy director for societal impact at the National Science Foundation–funded Center for Quantum Networks.

Bambauer co-authored “Dobbs Advanced Torts: Economic and Dignitary Torts.”

She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s, with distinction, from Yale University.