Daniel J. Solove
Professor Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.
He received his A.B. in English Literature from Washington University, where he was an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, Professor Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize and served as symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Following law school, Professor Solove clerked for The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After practicing law as an associate at the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., Professor Solove began a second clerkship with The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Solove began his law teaching career at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. He joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2004.
Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.
An internationally known expert in privacy law, Professor Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in over 100 articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and National Public Radio.
Professor Solove is the author of five books, including: THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GPOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET (Yale University Press, 2007), UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2008), The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press, 2004) and Information Privacy Law (Aspen, 2006) (with Marc Rotenberg & Paul M. Schwartz), a casebook now in its second edition.
Solove has written over 25 articles and essays, which have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Duke Law Journal, among others.
He has consulted in high-profile privacy law cases, contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and testified before Congress. He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute.
Professor Solove blogs at Concurring Opinions, a blog covering issues of law, culture, and current events.
Appearances
- 2008 State of the Net Conference January 30, 2008
Biography last updated November 15, 2007