Daniel Solove

The George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW | Washington, DC 20052
Phone: (202) 994-9514 | Fax: (202) 994-9817 | Email

BIO

Photo Credit: Dirk Anschütz

Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, schools, healthcare institutions, and other organizations.

He is the author of several books including:

* Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (Yale University Press 2011)

* Privacy Law Fundamentals (IAPP 2011) (with Paul M. Schwartz)

* Understanding Privacy (Harvard University Press 2008)

* The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press 2007)

* The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press 2004)

* Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing, 4td ed. 2012) (with Paul M. Schwartz)

His book, The Future of Reputation, won the 2007 McGannon Award.

An internationally known expert in privacy law, Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.

He has consulted in high-profile privacy law cases, contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and testified before Congress.

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Professor Solove's CV

ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

RECENT BOOKS

NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY
(Yale University Press 2011)
PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (IAPP 2011) (with Paul M. Schwartz)

RECENT LAW REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information
86 New York University Law Review 1814 (2011) (with Paul M. Schwartz)
Speech, Privacy, and Reputation on the Internet
book chapter in The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation
(Martha Nussbaum & Saul Levmore, eds. 2011)
Fourth Amendment Pragmatism
51 Boston College Law Review 1511 (2010)
Prosser's Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacy
98 California Law Review 1887 (2010) (with Neil M. Richards)
Rethinking Free Speech and Civil Liability
109 Columbia Law Review 1650 (2009) (with Neil M. Richards)

RECENT SHORTER WORKS

United States v. Jones and the Future of Privacy Law:
The Potential Far-Reaching Implications of the GPS Surveillance Case
Bloomberg BNA Privacy & Security Law Report (Jan. 30, 2012)
PII 2.0: Privacy and a New Approach to Personal Information
Bloomberg BNA Privacy & Security Law Report (Jan. 23, 2012)
The Virtues of Anonymity
New York Times: Room for Debate (June 21, 2011)
School Discipline for Off-Campus Speech and the First Amendment
Huffington Post (June 20, 2011)
Why "Security" Keeps Winning Out Over Privacy
Salon.com (May 31, 2011)
Gainful Employment: A Privacy Black Hole?
Inside Higher Ed (May 26, 2011)
Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
Chronicle of Higher Education (May 15, 2011)
The Slow Demise of Defamation and the Privacy Torts
Huffington Post (Oct. 11, 2010)
The Clementi Suicide, Privacy, and How We Are Failing Generation Google
Huffington Post (Oct. 7, 2010)
Dizzied by Data
Chronicle of Higher Education (August 29, 2010)

EARLIER WORKS

Data Mining and the Security-Liberty Debate
74 University of Chicago Law Review 343 (2008)
The End of Privacy?
Scientific American (Sept. 2008)
The New Vulnerability: Data Security and Personal Information
book chapter in Securing Privacy in the Internet Age (Anupam Chander, Margaret Radin, & Lauren Gellman, eds. 2008)
"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
44 San Diego Law Review 745 (2007)
Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality
96 Georgetown Law Journal 123 (2007) (with Neil M. Richards)
The First Amendment as Criminal Procedure
84 New York University Law Review 112 (2007)
A Taxonomy of Privacy
154 U. Pennsylvania Law Review 477 (2006)
The Multistate Bar Exam as a Theory of Law
104 Michigan Law Review 1403 (2006)
A Brief History of Information Privacy Law
book chapter in Proskauer on Privacy (Christopher Wolf, ed. 2006)
A Tale of Two Bloggers: Free Speech and Privacy in the Blogosphere
84 Washington University Law Review 1195 (2006)
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection
2006 U. Illinois Law Review 357 (2006) (with Chris Hoofnagle)

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The 4th edition of Information Privacy Lawis now in print. The 3rd edition of Privacy, Information, and Technology is now in print.
Professor Solove was named as one of the top global privacy experts in a survey by Computer World.
Follow Professor Solove on Twitter.
The Bulgarian translation of Professor Solove's book, THE DIGITAL PERSON, was published in 2010.
The Chinese translation of Professor Solove's book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, was published in 2011. The book has also been translated into Italian and Korean.
Professor Solove's blog, Concurring Opinions was selected by the ABA Journal as among the 100 best law blogs.

BOOKS

NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale U. Press 2011)	UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard U.Press 2008)

THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET (Yale U. Press 2007)	THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE (NYU Press 2004)

TEXTBOOKS

INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW (Aspen 3d ed. 2009) with Paul Schwartz	PRIVACY AND THE MEDIA (Aspen 2009) with Paul Schwartz
PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS with Paul M. Schwartz (IAPP 2011)	PRIVACY, INFORMATION, AND TECHNOLOGY with Paul M. Schwartz (Aspen 2d ed. 2009)
INFORMATION PRIVACY STATUTES AND REGULATIONS 2010-2011 with Paul M. Schwartz (Aspen 2009)

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