Washington, D.C., Summer Program

Faculty

Peter P. Swire is the C. William O'Neill Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He has directed the Washington, D.C., Summer Law Program since the fall of 2002. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

From 2009 until August 2010, Peter Swire was special assistant to the president for economic policy, serving in the National Economic Council under Lawrence Summers. In that role, he was White House coordinator for the administration’s inter-agency housing and housing finance policy, and worked extensively on technology issues, including broadband, privacy, cybersecurity, and net neutrality.

From 1999 until January 2001, Professor Swire served as the Clinton administration's chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In that position, he coordinated administration policy on the use of personal information in the public and private sectors, and served as point of contact with privacy and data protection officials in other countries.

Professor Swire testifies regularly before Congress, has published extensively in leading law reviews and is quoted frequently in the national and international press. Many of his writings appear at http://www.peterswire.net.

Professor Swire is a graduate of Princeton and the Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr., of the Second Circuit, and practiced for several years in Washington, D.C., before entering law teaching