Paul Schwartz is a leading international expert on information privacy law. He is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Advisory & Government Engagement
Schwartz counsels corporations and global institutions on regulatory, policy, and governance matters relating to information privacy. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and corporate events in the United States and abroad. Schwartz has testified before Congress and advised the Commission of the European Union and other international organizations.
Scholarship
Schwartz is the author of numerous books, including the leading casebook Information Privacy Law and the concise guide Privacy Law Fundamentals, both co-authored with Daniel Solove. Information Privacy Law is taught at more than forty law schools. He has written more than fifty articles published in leading law journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review. Fluent in German, Schwartz also contributes to German legal publications. His scholarship addresses a broad range of topics, including:
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- Privacy governance
- Privacy federalism
- Health care privacy
- Consumer privacy
- Data mining
- Financial privacy
- Data analytics
- Telecommunications surveillance
- Data security breaches
- International data transfers
- European data protection law
- Comparative privacy law
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Leadership
Schwartz co-organizes two leading conferences: the Privacy Law Salon and the Privacy + Security Forum. He serves on the editorial boards of International Data Privacy Law, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and Zeitschrift für Datenschutz (Data Protection Journal). At Berkeley Law School, he organizes and moderates the Annual Privacy Lecture, which each Fall features a different leading scholar. Schwartz served as co-Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Data Privacy Law Principles (2019).
Honors & Fellowships
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- Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
- Research Fellow, German Marshall Fund (Brussels)
- Grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Fulbright Foundation
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
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Bar Admissions & Education
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- Admitted to the Bar in New York and Arkansas.
- J.D. Yale Law School (Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal);
- B.A. Brown University
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