10 January 2017 – George Washington University Law School has launched the Cybersecurity Law Initiative. For years, GW Law has had strong faculty expertise and curricular offerings in cybersecurity law. The University decided to bring that together with a formal initiative that includes affiliated scholars from elsewhere in the university.
In the near term, the initiative will include a lecture series that is open to the public on topics of cybersecurity law and technology. It likely will host conferences in the field as well. In the long term, they may end up expanding to include research papers or perhaps a more formal educational component (possibly making cybersecurity law one of the specialty fields offered in GW’s LLM program).
For more details – including information about full scholarships available to study cybersecurity law at GW – see the website for the initiative: www.law.gwu.edu/cybersecurity.
The Initiative’s director is Professor Orin S. Kerr, who is one of the nation’s foremost experts in cybersecurity law. Professor Kerr came to GW Law in 2001 after serving as a trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is the author of a widely-used casebook, Computer Crime Law, as well as dozens of articles on Internet surveillance, computer search and seizure, and the computer hacking laws. Professor Kerr’s scholarship has been cited in over 250 court decisions, including many of the leading decisions in cybersecurity law.
Additional faculty affiliated with the Initiative include:
- Professor Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, who is one of the world’s top experts in information privacy law;
- Professor Dawn C. Nunziato, a leading authority on the area of free speech and the Internet;
- Professor Jeffrey Rosen (on leave), an expert on privacy law who also serves as the CEO of the National Constitution Center; and
- Professorial Lecturer in Law Paul Rosenzweig, a cybersecurity law expert who formerly served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security.
The Initiative also welcomes two Affiliated Scholars from outside the law school:
- Lance Hoffman, Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of GW’s Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute; and
- Carl Landwehr, Lead Research Scientist at GW’s Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute.
We will be tracking future events for the initiative on the home page and keep you informed.
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