Paul Schwartz (born 1959) is an American legal scholar who specializes in
information privacy law
Information privacy, data privacy or data protection laws provide a legal framework on how to obtain, use and store data of natural persons. The various laws around the world describe the rights of natural persons to control who is using its dat ...
. He is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor at the
UC Berkeley School of Law
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and a director of the
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (commonly known as Berkeley Law or UC Berkeley School of Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It is one of 1 ...
. He was formerly the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty.
Brookly ...
from 1998 to 2004.
Schwartz has written many books, including the leading casebook ''Information Privacy Law'', and the distilled guide ''Privacy Law Fundamentals'', each with
Daniel Solove
Daniel J. Solove (; born 1972) is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.
Research and teaching
Schwartz's research centres around the legal and policy implications of data mining,Ira S. Rubinstein, Ronald D. Lee, & Paul M. Schwartz, Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches, 75 University of Chicago Law Review 261 (2008) security breaches,Edward Janger, & Paul M. Schwartz Notification of Data Security Breaches, 105 Michigan Law Review 913 (2007) and spyware.Paul M. Schwartz, Privacy Inalienability and the Regulation of Spyware, 20 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1269 (2005) Together with
Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove (; born 1972) is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.personally identifiable information
Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person.
The abbreviation PII is widely accepted in the United States, but the phrase it abbreviates ha ...
in privacy law.Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information, 86 N.Y.U. Law Review 1814 (2011) 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
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and
Yale Law School
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, where he served as a senior editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''. He was the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty.
Brookly ...
from 1998 to 2004. He joined the
Berkeley Law
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (commonly known as Berkeley Law or UC Berkeley School of Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It is one of 1 ...
faculty in 2006. He 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
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's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.
Selected publications
Books
* Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, Privacy Law Fundamentals, IAPP, 2015
* Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, Information Privacy Law, Aspen Publishers, 5th ed. 2015
* Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, Privacy, Information, and Technology, Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 2011
* Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, Privacy and the Media, Aspen Publishers, 2009
* Joel R. Reidenberg, & Paul M. Schwartz, On-line Services and Data Protection and Privacy: Regulatory Responses, Brussels, 1998
* Joel R. Reidenberg, & Paul M. Schwartz, Data Privacy Law, Michie Publishing, 1996
Articles
* Paul M. Schwartz, & Daniel J. Solove, The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information, 86 N.Y.U. Law Review 1814 (2011)
* Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, & Paul M. Schwartz, Prosser’s Privacy and the German Right of Personality: Are Four Privacy Torts Better than One Unitary Concept?, 98 California Law Review 1925 (2010)
* Paul M. Schwartz, Preemption and Privacy, 118 Yale Law Journal 902 (2009)
* Paul M. Schwartz, Property, Privacy, and Personal Data, 117 Harvard Law Review 2055 (2004)
* Paul M. Schwartz, Voting Technology and Democracy, 75 N.Y.U. Law Review 625 (2002)