Paths for successful scholarship: a conversation with Professor Anu Bradford

• Department of Law

This event features a discussion with Professor Anu Bradford (Columbia Law School).

Abstract

Professor Anu Bradford from Columbia University shares her reflections on how to think about a rewarding academic career and impactful legal scholarship. Drawing on lessons from her own academic journey, including writing award-winning books The Brussels Effect and Digital Empires, Bradford shares key lessons she has learned along the way. How to choose which scholarly projects to pursue? How to balance different academic responsibilities and opportunities? How to structure a book writing project from an idea to publication? Why were her books successful? What mistakes has she made in her early career and what would she now do differently? What comes next and is AI changing how she is writing now?  

Speaker

Anu Bradford is 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. 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 newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published in September 2023. It was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times, and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. At the Law School, Bradford is the Director of the European Legal Studies Center. She is also a senior scholar at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.