I am not a real academic. I teach privacy law very part-time as an adjunct professor. I am a full-time law firm partner, focusing on privacy and data security issues.

I have been teaching formal privacy and data security law classes for more than four years. My students – at the various of schools where I have taught – are very good at reading case law. They aren’t so great at reading statutes or regulations. They also aren’t taught that much about the more practical aspects of being a lawyer – making an argument for or against a specific business practice, interpreting or negotiating contracts, or making policy judgments on how a law should be read or written.

Originally published in the George Mason University Law Review - Autumn 2019.