Erik Lampmann-Shaver studies how the law conceptualizes, protects, and endangers privacy. His work critically examines how the law balances privacy alongside other social and political values, like innovation and individual self-determination. Erik’s research interests also include the political economy of AI, platform regulation, and content moderation. His scholarship on these and related topics has appeared in the Washington University Law Review,  Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Administrative Law Review Accord, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs.

In his current role as a Thomas C. Grey Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Erik teaches first-year courses on legal research and writing. He is passionate about helping law students identify and develop their unique voices as lawyers and advocates.

Erik spent several years working on novel issues related to emerging technologies, including AI and machine-learning, prior to joining Stanford Law School. Most recently, he litigated privacy, content moderation, and consumer protection cases at Cooley LLP in San Francisco. Earlier in his career, Erik advised companies on compliance with privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader LLP in Washington, DC. He clerked for Chief Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Erik is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Public Affairs, served as a research affiliate of the Penn Program on Regulation, and received the George Shechtman Prize for the highest grade in first-year contracts. He received an undergraduate degree in political theory, also with honors, from the University of Richmond. He lives with his husband in the East Bay.