Paul M. Schwartz

Paul M. Schwartz
Alma mater	Brown University, B.A. Yale Law School, J.D.
Occupation	Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley Law Director of Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Website	http://www.paulschwartz.net

Professor and author Paul Schwartz (born 1959) is a noted expert in information privacy law. He is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.^[1]

Schwartz has written many books, including the leading casebook, Information Privacy Law, and the distilled guide, Privacy Law Fundamentals, each with Daniel Solove.^[2] His over fifty articles have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Chicago Law Review. Fluent in German, he contributes to German legal reviews.

Paul Schwartz is the recipient of various awards and fellowships from different foundations, including the American Academy in Berlin, the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Fulbright Foundation.

Paul Schwartz has been quoted by media outlets including Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among others.^[3]

Research and Teaching

Schwartz's research centers around the legal and policy implications of data mining,^[4] security breaches,^[5] and spyware.^[6] Together with Daniel J. Solove, Schwartz has re-introduced and systematized the concept of personally identifiable information in privacy law.^[7] 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 and Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2006. Schwartz 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's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.

Popular Appeal

Many law professors have sought to promote the critical thinking of students in tort awareness throughout their lives and studies. However, despite the importance of the study of torts, students only study torts as a first-year doctrinal class. In a response to this and in an attempt to promote his students' attention to torts, Schwartz created the phrase "You Only Tort Once," or "YOTO."

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)

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