Advanced Privacy Law and Theory

3 units

Prerequisite: Information Privacy Law. This advanced course in Privacy Law offers a more detailed examination of privacy law and privacy theory. It builds on the conceptual, analytical, comparative, and doctrinal skills developed in Information Privacy Law to enable more sustained and expert engagement with the American and European regimes of privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence law. The course offers a deeper and more specialized examination of both scholarly and practical issues in privacy law, from academic theories of privacy and data protection, to deeper examinations of the EU data protection regime and the GDPR, national security law, American privacy reform at the state and federal levels, artificial intelligence, the Edward Snowden revelations, and other issues of privacy and AI law of the moment. It is intended for students who took Information Privacy Law and who wish to pursue careers in privacy or technology law as well as for those interested in academic theories of privacy-or both, since the emerging global practice of privacy law is one in which lawyers and academics are frequently-and necessarily-in close and fruitful conversation with each other. Attendance and participation are essential. Please note that laptop computers are not permitted in class. Assessment will be on the basis of class participation and a blindly-graded final exam.