Paul M. Schwartz is Professor of Law at
UC Berkeley School of Law.
A leading international expert on information privacy, copyright, telecommunications and information law, he has published widely on these
topics.
In this country, his articles and essays have appeared in periodicals such as the
Harvard Law Review,
Yale Law Journal,
Stanford Law Review,
Columbia Law Review,
Michigan Law Review, and
N.Y.U. Law Review.
His co-authored books include Data Privacy Law (1996, supp. 1998)
and Data Protection Law and On-line Services: Regulatory Responses (1998),
a study carried out for the Commission of the European Union that examines emerging issues in Internet privacy in four European countries.
Professor Schwartz has provided advice and testimony to numerous governmental bodies in the United States and Europe. During 2002-2003, he was
in residence as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin
and as a Transatlantic Fellow at the
German Marshall Fund
in Brussels. He has also acted as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union on privacy issues. On behalf of the
Practising Law Institute,
he has served as co-chair for a series of Annual Institutes on Privacy Law in New York and San Francisco.
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.
