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 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. He teaches privacy law and cybersecurity law. As a visiting professor or guest lecturer, Professor Schwartz has taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main, the University of Zurich, and the University of Nantes, among other institutions.
His recent articles include: The President’s Authority Over Cross-Border Data Flows, 173 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1989 (2024) (with Anupam Chander); Privacy Standing, 104 Boston University Law Review 1795 (2024); Privacy and/or Trade, 90 University of Chicago Law Review 49 (2023) (with Anupam Chander); ALI Data Privacy: Overview and Black Letter Text, 68 U.C.L.A. Law Review 1252 (2022) with Daniel Solove; and The Data Privacy Law of Brexit: Theories of Preference Change, 22 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 111 (2021). Schwartz is also a coauthor with Daniel Solove of Information Privacy Law (eighth edition, 2024), a casebook, and of Privacy Law Fundamentals (seventh edition, 2024), a treatise. Information Privacy Law is used in privacy law courses at over fifty law schools in the United States.
Schwartz has testified before Congress and served as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union and other international organizations. He assists numerous corporations and law firms with regulatory, policy, and governance issues relating to information privacy. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and corporate events in the United States and abroad.
Schwartz is a past recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin and a Research Fellowship at the German Marshal Fund in Brussels. Schwartz is also a recipient of grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, the German Academic Exchange, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the organizing committee of the Privacy Law Salon and Privacy + Security forum.
Education
B.A., Brown University (1981)
J.D., Yale University (1985)
Paul M Schwartz is teaching the following course in Spring 2026:
• 276.13 sec. 001 - Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2025 | 276.32 sec. 001 | Topics in Privacy and Security Law | View Teaching Evaluation | 276P sec. 001 | Information Privacy Law | View Teaching Evaluation | Spring 2025 | 276.13 sec. 001 | Cybersecurity Law and Policy | View Teaching Evaluation |
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