About James
James Hamraie is a Fellow at ZwillGen who assists clients with data privacy, artificial intelligence, technology transactions, and other emerging technology matters. Drawing on experience working alongside in-house legal and technical teams, James focuses on translating evolving legal requirements into practical guidance that accounts for how businesses develop products, manage data, and deploy new technologies.
James interests center around privacy and data use, artificial intelligence, regulatory compliance, complex information requests, and technology and commercial transactions. His work covers AI transparency and governance, data licensing and commercialization, regulated data, age-verification and online-platform issues, emerging state privacy and data-use restrictions, and government investigations and third-party subpoenas involving electronically stored information and platform data. He also addresses data and intellectual property licensing, software and technology vendors, privacy and security obligations, AI and data-use rights, and strategic commercial relationships, including provisions governing data access, use, licensing, and downstream rights.
Before joining ZwillGen, James addressed privacy and AI issues in policy and in-house roles. At the Future of Privacy Forum’s Center for Artificial Intelligence, he researched emerging AI laws and helped develop guidance on AI governance, high-risk systems, transparency, privacy and security, human oversight, and autonomous and agentic AI, including FPF’s 2026 Updated Best Practices for AI and Workplace Assessment Technologies. At OpenX, a global advertising technology company, he supported an FTC-mandated privacy compliance program and advised on privacy requirements, vendor and partner agreements, compliance materials, and proposed data-processing activities. His broader transactional experience includes reviewing and negotiating vendor agreements, data-processing and information-security terms, and provisions addressing security, liability, and related commercial risks.
James received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law and his LL.M. from Georgia State University College of Law, where he graduated summa cum laude with a focus on intellectual property law and data privacy & cybersecurity. He was also a semifinalist in the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition. James is completing an M.S. in Cybersecurity at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has completed Carnegie Mellon University’s Privacy Engineering Program. He has published and contributed to work on privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and emerging technology through the Future of Privacy Forum, the American Bar Association’s Business Law Today, and other legal and policy publications.
Outside of work, James enjoys sports, hiking, coding, trying new recipes, and exploring Washington, D.C. with his wife and two dogs.
