Name Paul Schwartz | Education Yale Law School | |
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Alma mater Brown University, B.A.
Yale Law School, J.D. Occupation Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley Law
Director of Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Books Privacy and the Media, Privacy - Information - and Tech, Information Privacy: Statutes a, Privacy Law Fundamentals, Data Privacy Law: A St | ||
Professor and author Paul Schwartz (born 1959) is a noted expert in information privacy law. He is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Contents
Schwartz has written many books, including the leading casebook, Information Privacy Law, and the distilled guide, Privacy Law Fundamentals, each with Daniel Solove. His over fifty articles have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Chicago Law Review. Fluent in German, he contributes to German legal reviews.
Paul Schwartz is the recipient of various awards and fellowships from different foundations, including the American Academy in Berlin, the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Fulbright Foundation.
Paul Schwartz has been quoted by media outlets including Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among others.
Research and Teaching
Schwartz's research centers around the legal and policy implications of data mining, security breaches, and spyware. Together with Daniel J. Solove, Schwartz has re-introduced and systematized the concept of personally identifiable information in privacy law. A special focus of his work has been comparative law and differences in the privacy law of the European Union and the United States. He teaches information privacy, intellectual property, and tort law.
Academic career
Paul Schwartz graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2006. Schwartz is co-reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Privacy Law Principles. He is a member of the organizing committee of the Privacy and Security Forum and the Privacy Law Salon. He is co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.
Popular Appeal
Many law professors have sought to promote the critical thinking of students in tort awareness throughout their lives and studies. However, despite the importance of the study of torts, students only study torts as a first-year doctrinal class. In a response to this and in an attempt to promote his students' attention to torts, Schwartz created the phrase "You Only Tort Once," or "YOTO."