Elena Chachko

Job title: 
Assistant Professor of Law
Department: 
Berkeley Law
Bio/CV: 
Elena Chachko is an Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School. She was the inaugural Rappaport Fellow at Harvard Law School. Motivated by experience in diplomacy and intelligence analysis, Professor Chachko’s research explores the intersection of law and geopolitics. Her recent projects study international cooperation in the administrative state, how agencies engage with international norms and practices in domestic regulation, the emergency governance of domestic and international institutions, the security and geopolitical aspects of tech governance, national security in economic regulation, and the rise of economic warfare in international relations. She has also studied models of responsibility sharing for refugees and asylum seekers. Her award winning scholarship has been published widely in academic and other media publications.