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Joel R. Reidenberg
Professor of Law at Fordham University (United States)

 

Joel R. Reidenberg is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and the Director of the Graduate Program in Law. He teaches courses in Information Privacy, Information Technology Law, International Trade, Comparative Law and Contracts. Professor Reidenberg has been a visiting professor at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), at the Université de Paris V (René Descartes) and at AT&T Laboratories - Public Policy Research. He also lectures frequently at universities around the world.

Professor Reidenberg writes extensively on fair information practices and is the co-author of the books ON-LINE SERVICES AND DATA PROTECTION LAW: REGULATORY RESPONSES (EUR-OP: 1998) and DATA PRIVACY LAW (Michie: 1996).

Other recent papers and book chapters include:

  • Resolving Conflicting International Privacy Rules in Cyberspace, 52 Stanford L. Rev 1315 (2000);
  • L'encadrement juridique de l'Internet aux Etats-Unis, Actes du colloque international sur "L'internet et le droit: Droit européen et comparé de l'internet" de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne (2000);
  • Restoring Ameicans' Privacy in Electronic Commerce, 14 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 771 (1999);
  • L'instabilité et la concurrence des regimes réglementaires dans le Cyberespace in Ejan MacKaay, ed., LES INCERTITUDES DU DROIT (Themis: 1999);
  • Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules through Technology, 76 Texas Law Review 553 (1998);
  • The Use of Technology to Assure Internet Privacy: Adapting Labels and Filters for Data Protection, Lex Electronica (Fall 1997);
  • A Movement toward Obligatory Standards for Fair Information Practices in the United States, in Visions for Privacy in the 21st Century: A Search for Solutions (C. Bennett & R. Grant, eds., Univ. of Toronto Press: 1999);
  • Governing Networks and Rule-Making in Cyberspace, 45 Emory Law Journal 911 (1996).

He has also published articles in the Federal Communications Law Journal, the Fordham Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Law & Technology, the Iowa Law Review, and the Gazette du Palais as well as other chapters in books with the MIT Press and the Twentieth Century Fund Press.

Professor Reidenberg served as the chair of the Section on Defamation and Privacy of the Association of American Law Schools (the academic society for American law professors) and is a former chair of the association's Section on Law and Computers. He recently served as an expert advisor to the Federal Trade Commission on privacy and credit reporting, to the O.E.C.D. drafting project on guidelines for the protection of consumers in electronic commerce and has served as a consultant for the European Commission on a study of data protection and electronic commerce. Formerly, he practiced law in Washington, DC with the international telecommunications group of the firm Debevoise & Plimpton and has also served as a member of several Advisory Panels for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. Professor Reidenberg received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Columbia University and a D.E.A. from the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He is admitted to the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia.