Anu Bradford

Areas of expertise: International trade law and international political economy, International antitrust law, international relations theory, European Union law

A leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, Anu Bradford coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets. Most recently, she is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her next book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology will be published by the Oxford University Press in September 2023.

Recent media:

"The Global Order of Digital Empires Is Only Just Holding Together," Financial Times, July 19, 2023

"The Race to Regulate Artificial Intelligence," Foreign Affairs, June 27, 2023

"The Brussels Effect: Regulating the World," Bloomberg, April 20, 2023