Paul Chander is a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice. As a member of the Antitrust Section, he enforces California and federal antitrust law through merger reviews, investigations, and civil and criminal litigation. Before joining the Attorney General’s Office, he practiced complex commercial litigation in the private sector and maintained a pro bono practice focused on constitutional and civil rights.

Chander’s academic interests include political economy and the Constitution. His writings have been published in the Antitrust Chronicle, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and Law360. At USC Gould, Chander teaches “Law and the U.S. Constitution in Global History” and “Introduction to the U.S. Legal System.”

Chander began his legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Center for Community-Based Enterprise in Detroit, Mich., where he provided transactional legal services to small businesses to support community economic development. He clerked for three judges at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, including Hon. David Sotelo, Hon. Dennis J. Landín, and Hon. Craig D. Karlan. Before law school, Chander worked as a Field Organizer for the Obama-Biden campaign in Dayton, Ohio.

Chander earned his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Tony Patiño Fellow and a Lowenstein Fellow. He received his BA in Political Science with a minor in Public Policy from UCLA, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, awarded the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship, and recognized with the Distinguished Senior Award.