Chinmayi Arun

Chinmayi Arun ’20 LLM, ’25 JSD, is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and a Research Scholar at Yale Law School. She is also affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Her research focuses on social media and AI, and their harms and their impact on society. Arun writes about emerging technologies from a platform governance, global political economy, tort law, and freedom of thought and expression perspective. She is interested in how they affect political rights and impact marginalized populations.

Arun has taught AI Law and Policy at Yale and has taught courses on privacy and platform governance in India. She has served as a Human Rights Officer (temporary appointment) at the United Nations, where she worked on questions of privacy, online speech, and artificial intelligence, as well as on advisory committees of international bodies like UNESCO and UN Global Pulse. She has also advised governmental entities and foundations and served on the boards of non-profit entities. She has studied law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.