Privacy Law

Catalog description

This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to the law of data and information privacy around the world as well as practical experience regarding how data privacy issues arise and are resolved. The course will follow a lecture and discussion format focusing on fundamental principles of data privacy and how they apply to various jurisdictions around the world with a particular focus on the United States and Europe. Along the way, students will be given a series of small assignments tied to the substance of the class material and structured around privacy-related problems with which a practicing privacy attorney might be faced.