Washington, D.C., Summer Program

Faculty

Peter P. Swire is the C. William O'Neill Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University and Director of the Washington, D.C., Summer Law Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

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.

He was White House coordinator for the proposed and final HIPAA medical privacy rules, and played a leading role on topics including financial privacy, Internet privacy, encryption, public records and privacy, e-commerce policy, and computer security and privacy.

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. He is faculty editor of “Privacy Year in Review” in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy in the Information Age, and was lead author of the 2007 book Information Privacy.

Professor Swire graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and in law school was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received a Rotary Fellowship to study European Community Law in Brussels in 1981-82 and clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr., of the Second Circuit. He practiced in the Washington office of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy from 1986 to 1990 before entering law teaching.