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Paul M. Schwartz
Title: Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Office: 423 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-0352
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: pschwartz@law.berkeley.edu
Paul M. Schwartz's Homepage
FSU Contact: Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie
Paul Schwartz is a leading international expert on information privacy and information law. His scholarship focuses on how the law has sought to regulate and otherwise shape information technology - as well as the impact of information technology on law and democracy. Schwartz joined the faculty in 2006 after teaching at Brooklyn Law School and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville for eight years. He teaches privacy law.
His recent articles include "Notification of Data Security Breaches" in the Michigan Law Review (2007) (with Edward Janger); "Property, Privacy, and Personal Data" in the Harvard Law Review (2004); "Eldred and Lochner: Copyright Term Extension and Intellectual Property as Constitutional Property" (with William Treanor) in the Yale Law Journal (2003); and "Voting Technology and Democracy" in the N.Y.U. Law Review (2002). Schwartz is also a coauthor of Information Privacy Law (second edition, 2006), a leading privacy casebook.
Schwartz has advised numerous U.S. and European governmental bodies on privacy and other legal issues and served as an adviser to the Commission of the European Union. In 2002-03, he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. Schwartz has also received a Humboldt Scholar Grant, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship.
Education:
B.A., Brown University (1981)J.D., Yale University (1985)
