Gaia Bernstein is the Technology, Privacy and Policy Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology. Professor Bernstein specializes in law and technology, focusing on addictive technologies, social media regulation and artificial intelligence regulation. She is currently serving as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Professor Bernstein’s book: Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. Unwired has been broadly featured and excerpted, including by Wired Magazine, Time Magazine and the Boston Globe. It has received many recognitions, including as a Next Big Idea Must Read Book; a finalist of the PROSE award in legal studies; a finalist of the international Book Awards in general non-fiction; and a finalist of the American Book Fest award in business-technology. Professor Bernstein is also the founding director of the Institute for Privacy Protection. She created and spearheaded the Institute’s nationally recognized school outreach program, which educated parents and students about technology overuse and privacy.

Professor Bernstein was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation for a 2026 Bellagio Residency. In 2025, she received the Iconic Women Award at the Women Economic Forum in Poland. In 2024, she was selected as the Law School’s Researcher of the Year. Professor Bernstein’s scholarship has been published in leading law reviews including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Washington Law Review and the UC Davis Law Review. Professor Bernstein was the Chair of the Section on Privacy and Defamation and a member of the Executive Board of the Section on Intellectual Property of the American Association of Law Schools.