Christopher Wolf

Who is Christopher Wolf?

Christopher Wolf is an American attorney specializing in Internet and privacy law. He is a partner in the international law firm of Hogan Lovells US LLP. He is the founding editor and lead author of the first Practising Law Institute legal treatise on privacy and information security law. He is the founder and co-chair of a think tank devoted to emerging privacy issues, the Future of Privacy Forum. He also has chaired an international consortium of NGO's fighting online hate speech, the International Network Against Cyber-hate, on whose board her serves and he leads the work of the Anti-Defamation League in fighting online hate speech. Wolf graduated from Bowdoin College in 1976, and magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1980. He clerked with the Hon. Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., United States District Court, District of Columbia, 1980-1982.

In 2013, Wolf co-authored a book enitled Viral Hate: Containing its Spread on the Internet.