Founding Co-Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Nate Persily is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, with appointments in the departments of Political Science and Communication. He is the founding co-director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center and its Program on Democracy and the Internet. His scholarship focuses on the “Law of Democracy,” which addresses issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. He has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to craft congressional or legislative districting plans for numerous states and as the senior research director for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is co-author of the leading election law casebook, The Law of Democracy, and co-edited the volume Social Media and Democracy, and most recently, The Digitalist Papers: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy in America. His current work, for which he has been honored as a Guggenheim and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration.