Peter P. Swire

C. William O'Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration

Professor Peter Swire, the C. William O’Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration, is a national and global leader on privacy, cybersecurity, and related technology issues. He is director of the College’s Washington, D.C., Summer Program, a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress, and policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. He leads a project on government access to personal information for the Future of Privacy Forum.

Under President Clinton, Swire served as chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the only person to date to have governmentwide responsibility for privacy policy. His activities there included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule and chairing a White House working group on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet.

In 2009 and 2010 Swire served as special assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy, serving in the National Economic Council with Lawrence Summers. Swire worked extensively there on housing and housing finance, and also on broadband, spectrum, privacy, and other technology issues.

His recent courses include Privacy, Law of Cyberspace, The Ethics of Washington Lawyering, and the U.S. Legal System and Legal Traditions for Moritz L.L.M. students.