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.
Scholarship
Schwartz is the author of numerous books, including the leading casebook Information Privacy Law and the distilled guide Privacy Law Fundamentals, both co-authored with Daniel Solove. Information Privacy Law is taught at more than forty law schools. He is the author of 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 contributes to German legal publications. His scholarship spans over a broad range of topics, including data analytics, telecommunications surveillance, data security breaches, health care privacy, privacy governance, data mining, financial privacy, European data protection law, and comparative privacy law.
Activities
Schwartz has testified before Congress and advised the Commission of the European Union and other international organizations. He assists numerous corporations and international organizations with 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 was co-reporter of the American Law Institute’s pathbreaking Data Privacy Law Principles (2019). His honors include the Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin and a Research Fellowship at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. He has also received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. In addition, he co-organizes two leading conferences in the field: the Privacy Law Salon and the Privacy + Security Forum.
Schwartz 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). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, the premier global gathering of privacy scholars, researchers, and practitioners. He earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.
