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                   SWIRE'S PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Peter P. Swire & Sol Bermann, Information Privacy: Official Reference for the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) (International Association of Privacy Professionals 2007).

                                                                     

Peter P. Swire & Robert E. Litan, None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic
Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive
(Brookings Institution Press 1998).

                                                                         

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

“Book Review: Transparency in Jeopardy,” Issues in Science & Tech., Winter, 2007, at 92 (Reviewing Alasdair Roberts, Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age).

“Introductory Essay for "Privacy Law Year in Review, 2005-2006” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (2007).

“Privacy and Information Sharing in the War on Terrorism,” 51 Villanova L. Rev. 260 (2006).

“Introductory Essay for ‘Privacy Law: The Year in Review, 2004’,” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (2006).

“A Theory of Disclosure for Security and Competitive Reasons: Open Source, Proprietary Software, and Government Systems,” 42 Houston Law Review 1333 (2006).

“Elephants and Mice Revisited: Law and Choice of Law on the Internet,” 153 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1975 (2005).

“Through the Privacy Lens,” 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L., Issue 2 (with Julie Cohen & David Sorkin) (2005).

“Katz is Dead, Long Live Katz,” 102 Mich. L. Rev. 904 (2004).

“The System of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law”, 72 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1306 (2004).

“A Model for When Disclosure Helps Security: What Is Different About Computer and Network Security?” 3 J. Telecomm. & High Technology L. 163 (2004) (and forthcoming as a chapter in a book to be published by the Cambridge University Press).

“Efficient Confidentiality for Privacy, Security, and Confidential Business Information,” Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services (Brookings, 2003).

“Trustwrap: The Importance of Legal Rules for E-Commerce and Internet Privacy”, 54 Hastings L.J. 847 (2003).

“State Wiretaps and Electronic Surveillance After September 11”, 54 Hastings L.J. 971 (2003) (with Charles Kennedy).                                                                                                                     Appendix A: State Wiretap Laws (as of June, 2002)                                                                        Appendix B: Recent State Wiretap Legislation (as of June, 2002)

“The Surprising Virtues of the New Financial Privacy Law,” 86 Minn. L. Rev. 1263 (2002).

"Security and Privacy After September 11: The Health Care Example,” 86 Minn. L. Rev. 1515 (2002) (with Lauren Steinfeld).

“The Ethical and Legal Implications of Jaffee v. Redmond and the HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule for Psychotherapy and General Psychiatry,” 25 Psychiatric Clinics of North America 575 (2002) (with Paul Mosher).

"Financial Privacy and the Theory of High Tech Government Surveillance," 77 Washington U. L.Q. 461 (1999) & Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Services (1999).

"Of Elephants, Mice, and Privacy: International Choice of Law and the Internet," 32 The
International Lawyer 991 (1998).

"The Uses and Limits of Financial Cryptography: A Law Professor's Perspective," chapter in the proceedings of Financial Cryptography '97 (Springer Verlag, 1997).

"Markets, Self Regulation, and Legal Enforcement in the Protection of Personal Information," U.S. Department of Commerce, Privacy and Self Regulation in the Information Age (1997).

"The Race to Laxity and the Race to Undesirability: Explaining Failures in Competition Among Jurisdictions in Environmental Law," Yale Law & Policy Rev./Yale J. on Regulation, Symposium: Constructing a New Federalism 67 (1996).

"Equality of Opportunity and Investment in Creditworthiness," 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1533
(1995).

"The Persistent Problem of Lending Discrimination: A Law and Economics Analysis," 73 Tex. L. Rev. 787 (1995).

"Safe Harbors and a Proposal to Improve the Community Reinvestment Act," 79 Va. L. Rev. 349 (1993).

"Bank Insolvency Law Now That It Matters Again," 42 Duke L.J. 469 (1992).

Litan, Swire & Winston, "The U.S. Liability System: Background and Trends," in Liability: Perspectives and Policies (Brookings, 1988).

Note, The Incorporation of Independent Agencies Into the Executive Branch, 94 Yale L.J.
1766 (1985).

Book Review, 1 Yale J. L & Pol'y 417 (1983) (reviewing Jerry L. Mashaw, Bureaucratic
Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Why There Are No Privacy Problems Raised by the Ohio Fair Minimum Wage Amendment", available at Swire website, October 10, 2006.

"The Internet and the Future of Consumer Protection," Center for American Progress, July 24,2006.

"Is Data Retention Secure?", Federal Computer Week, June 12, 2006.

"Disclosing Records Clearly Illegal," Cincinnati Enquirer, May 21, 2006.

"Research Report: Application of IBM Anonymous Resolution to the Health Care Sector," IBM Entity Analytic Solutions, February, 2006.

“Immutable Audit Logs – Accountability for Non-Transparent Systems,” Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security (2005) (with Jeff Jonas).

“Justice Department Opinion Undermines Protection of Medical Privacy,” Center for American Progress, June, 2005.

Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee, on Section 218 of the Patriot Act, April, 2005.

Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee, on Sections 209 & 217 of the Patriot Act, April, 2005.

“Section 215 of the Patriot Act,” www.patriotdebates.com, April, 2005.

“The New Federal Privacy Officials,” Privacy & Information L. Rept., Mar. 2005, at 8.

“The Wrong Civil Liberties Board,” Center for American Progress guest editorial, Sept. 2004.

“Has Technology Outstripped Telephone Legal Protections?”, Privacy Journal, June, 2004, at 3.

Comments submitted to federal financial regulatory agencies on short privacy notices, Mar. 29, 2004.

“Don’t Delete Internet Privacy”, Detroit Free Press, Aug. 26, 2003.

“Protecting Privacy from the ‘New Spam’”, Boston Globe, July 27, 2003, at E11.

“Enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule: The Past Is Our Guide”, Privacy & Information Law Reporter, June, 2003, at 1 (with Brian Busey).

“Reauthorization of the Fair Credit Reporting Act”, testimony before the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, May, 2003.

“The Online/Offline Question”, in “Considering Consumer Privacy: A Resource for Policymakers and Practitioners” (Center for Democracy and Technology 2003).

Eisenach & Swire, “Ensuring Privacy’s Post-Attack Survival,” www.zdnet.com, Sept.11, 2002.

“New Procedures Under HIPAA for Disclosure of Protected Health Information in Judicial and Administrative Proceedings,” Privacy & Information Law Reporter, Sept., 2002, at 1 (with Brian Busey and Sean Ruff).

“Speaking Out About Wiretaps,” Wash. Post, Aug. 30, 2002, at A23 (with John Podesta).

“Privacy and the Homeland Security Department,” Testimony before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, July, 2002.

Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on medical privacy regulation, April, 2002.

"Privacy and the Future of Justice Statistics," Proceedings of a National Conference on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information , SEARCH -- The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics (2001).

"If Surveillance Expands, Safeguard Civil Liberties," Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 21, 2001.

"Administration Wiretap Proposal Hits the Right Issues But Goes Too Far," Brookings Terrorism Project Website, October 3, 2001.

"Cato Privacy Paper Not Persuasive," available at Swire website, August 10, 2001 (critiquing Tom Bell, "Internet Privacy and Self-Regulation: Lessons from the Porn Wars").

"New Study Substantially Overstates Costs of Internet Privacy Protections," available at Swireweb site, May 9, 2001 (critiquing Robert Hahn, "As Assessment of the Costs of Online Privacy Protection").

"Peter Swire on Privacy, Pay Phones, and Strong Crypto," Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report, April, 2001, p. 1 (interview on financial privacy).

Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on medical privacy regulation, April, 2001.

"Privacy is Peter Swire's Domain: Behind the Scenes He's President's Go-to Guy," by Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, June 7, 2000, Life Section, p. 1 (press profile).

Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Commerce on the proposed safe harbor for transborder data flows, December, 1998.

"The Great Wall of Europe," CIO Magazine, Feb. 15, 1998, at 26.

"Invasion of the Space Alien Movies," Ohio State Hearsay, Sept. 1997.

"The Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act and the Future of Electronic Commerce Law," Electronic Banking Law & Commerce Rep., Nov./Dec. 1996.

Testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, concerning proposed reform of bank insolvency laws, June, 1995.

"Bank on Streamlined Regulation," Wall St. J., Nov. 21, 1994, at A16.

"Jonah, the Bible, and Environmental Values," Va. L. Weekly, Sept. 23, 1994, at 1.

"Lifting CRA's Threat to Mergers," American Banker, Jan. 5, 1993, at 4.

"Good Old Days Disappear in Banking Regulation," Va. L. Rept., Summer, 1991, at 21.

Eizenstat & Swire, "Try Efforts That Are Neutral of Race, Too," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 14, 1989.

"Tropical Chic", The New Republic, Jan. 30, 1989.

Lazarus & Swire, "Reactionary Activism", The New Republic, Feb. 22, 1988.

Unpublished Materials

The following are selected works that were never published but which provide historical perspective on my work in privacy and information technology.

 

"The Administration Response to the Challenges of Protecting Privacy," Stanford L. Rev. Symposium on Privacy, Jan. 8, 2000.  This almost-finished law review article provides a contemporaneous description of what we were trying to accomplish on privacy about halfway through my time in the Clinton Administration.

 

“Public Feedback Regulation: Learning to Govern In The Age of Computers, Telecommunications, and the Media.”   This was my first writing on the law of cyberspace, presented to the faculty at the University of Virginia in January, 1993.  That was early enough that I had to define “cyberspace” in the first paragraph.  Although I disagree now with some of the specifics, the main insight holds up – the Internet allows far greater transparency and user empowerment than previous communication technologies.

 

“The Onslaught of Complexity: Information Technology and Developments in Legal and Economic Thought.”  This was my undergraduate thesis, which shared a prize for best thesis in 1980 in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.  For better or worse, it works on the same themes as much of my later work – the intersection of information technology, economics, and law.
 

                                               

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