Paul M. Schwartz

Professor of Law

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Paul M. Schwartz

Professor of Law
University of California
Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 643-0352
Fax: (510) 643-2673
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Paul Schwartz is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. A leading international expert on informational privacy and information law, he has published widely on these topics. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and other periodicals. Professor Schwartz has testified as an expert before Committees of the Senate and House and acted as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union and the Department of Justice, Canada. In 2002-2003, Professor Schwartz was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund' Transatlantic Center in Brussels. He has also acted as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union on privacy issues and is a member of the American Law Institute. Paul Schwartz is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his undergraduate education at Brown University.

Representative Scholarly Works

  • Information Privacy Law
    (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2012), Daniel J. Solove, co-author

    This book surveys the field of information privacy law, with excerpts from the leading cases and scholarship. It covers privacy issues involving the media, health and genetic privacy, law enforcement, freedom of association, anonymity, identification, computers, records, cyberspace, home, school, workplace, and international privacy.
  • Privacy Law Fundamentals
    (IAPP 2011) Daniel J. Solove, co-author

    A distilled guide, Privacy Law Fundamentals offers key knowledge for privacy practitioners and students of this field. It provides the essential elements of privacy law at your fingertips. It includes: analysis of leading cases, numerous charts and tables, summaries of key state privacy laws, an overview of FTC enforcement actions, and answers to frequently asked privacy questions.