Paul Schwartz
Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law
Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
pschwartz@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-0352 | Fax: 510-643-2673
333 Law Building (North Addition), Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Shamarah Helire
Areas of Expertise: Law and Technology
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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 torts.
His recent articles include: The EU-US Privacy Collision: A Turn to Institutions and Procedures, 126 Harvard Law Review 1966 (2013); Information Privacy in the Cloud,161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1623 (2013); “The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information” in the New York University Law Review (2011) (with Daniel Solove); and “Regulating Governmental Data Mining in the United States and Germany: Constitutional Courts, the State, and New Technology,” in the William and Mary Law Review (2011). Schwartz is also a coauthor of Information Privacy Law (fourth edition, 2011), a casebook, and of Privacy Law Fundamentals (2013), a treatise.
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 organizing committee of the Privacy Law Salon and of the American Law Institute.
Education
B.A., Brown University (1981)J.D., Yale University (1985)
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Paul M. Schwartz is teaching the following courses in Fall 2022:
• 276.32 sec. 001 - Topics in Privacy and Security Law• 276P sec. 001 - Information Privacy Law
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Courses During Other Semesters
Summer 2022 276PS sec. 001 Information Privacy Law
Spring 2022 276.13 sec. 001 Cybersecurity Law and Policy View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2021 276.32 sec. 001 Topics in Privacy and Security Law View Teaching Evaluation
276P sec. 001 Information Privacy Law View Teaching Evaluation
Summer 2021 276PS sec. 001 Information Privacy Law
Spring 2021 276.13 sec. 001 Cybersecurity Law and Policy View Teaching Evaluation
276.85 sec. 001 Intro to Information Privacy View Teaching Evaluation
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