STLR/CIS Symposium 2007 -> Author Bios

Beyond a Physical Conception of the 4th Amendment: Search & Seizure in the Digital Age

Author Bios

Susan Freiwald is an Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she teaches Cyberspace Law.

Professor Freiwald received her B.A. magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University and her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991. After law school Professor Freiwald clerked for Judge Amalya Kearse of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of San Francisco School of Law, Professor Freiwald was a member of the Legal Studies Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Freiwald has done database programming for a small computer consulting firm. She has also worked as an applications (software) developer at Oracle Corporation in Silicon Valley. During and after law school Professor Freiwald worked for several law firms, including: Graham & James (San Francisco), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto), and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (New York). While in private practice, Professor Freiwald worked on intellectual property litigation matters and on corporate matters involving high technology and communications companies.

Professor Freiwald has written three articles on the intersection of high technology and law: "Addressing the New Hazards of the High Technology Workplace" in the Harvard Law Review, "Comparative Institutional Analysis in Cyberspace: The Case of Intermediary Liability for Defamation" in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and "Uncertain Privacy, Communication Attributes after the Digital Telephony Act, " in the Southern California Law Review. She has also co-written amicus briefs in Hepting v. AT&T and Warshak v. United States.

Jack Lerner is a fellow athe Samuelson Clinic at Boalt Hall. Mr. Lerner previously served at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, where he worked to develop an online entertainment cooperative, a nonprofit digital music distribution system modeled after proposals to reform the current entertainment industry and intellectual property system via collective licensing and revenue-pooling regimes. Prior to his work with the Berkman Center, Jack practiced law with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. in Palo Alto, California, where he counseled and represented technology companies in disputes involving intellectual property, privacy, internet marketing, and e-commerce issues.

After graduating with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999, Jack clerked for the late Hon. G.T. VanBebber of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas and the late Hon. Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Jack's research interests include legal and business solutions to the digital media crisis, the intersection between the internet and intellectual property, the evolution of internet norms, and the law and policy of music sampling and other types of creative reuse of music.

Deirdre K. Mulligan is the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and a clinical professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Before coming to Boalt, she was staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington.

Mulligan writes about the risks and opportunities technology presents to privacy, free expression, and access and use of information goods. Recent publications about privacy include: "Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues," with Ari Schwartz and Indrani Mondal, forthcoming 2005, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society; and, "Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act," 72 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1557 (2004).

Mulligan was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Authentication Technology and Its Privacy Implications; the Federal Trade Commission's Federal Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and the National Task Force on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information. She was a vice-chair of the California Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices and chaired the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) Conference in 2004. She is currently a member of the California Office of Privacy Protection's Advisory Council and a co-chair of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. She serves on the board of the California Voter Foundation and on the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Paul Ohm joined the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Law in Spring of 2006. He specializes in the emerging field of computer crime law, as well as criminal procedure, intellectual property, and information privacy. Prior to joining CU he worked as an Honors Program trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Ohm is a former law clerk to Judge Betty Fletcher of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Mariana Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He attended the UCLA School of Law where he served as Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review and received the Benjamin Aaron and Judge Jerry Pacht prizes. Prior to law school, he worked for several years as a computer programmer and network systems administrator, and before that he earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.

Nicole Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California, working on the intersection of new technology, privacy, and free speech. Ms. Ozer was named the first civil liberties and technology policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Based in a new San Jose office, she develops privacy and other civil rights initiatives and strategies related to technological advances. She previously served as a judicial clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and was a litigation associate with Morrison & Foerster.

A graduate of Boalt Hall, Ozer was an executive editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and a clinical intern at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. She also served as co-president of Boalt's class of 2003 and was honored by the law school for excellence in clinical advocacy. In 2001 she was recognized by San Jose Magazine as one of 20 women "Making a Mark" in Silicon Valley.

Richard Salgado is a Senior Corporate Counsel for Yahoo!, Inc. focusing on the legal issues the company faces in connection with international law enforcement and intelligence investigations, and preservation of network security and data privacy.

He previously served as a prosecutor in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice. As a prosecutor, Richard Salgado specialized in investigating and prosecuting computer network cases, such as computer hacking, denial of service attacks, illegal sniffing, logic bombs, viruses and other technology-driven privacy crimes. Often such crimes cross international jurisdictions; Richard Salgado helped coordinate and manage the investigation and prosecution of those cases. Richard Salgado also participates in policy development relating to emerging technologies such as the growth of wireless networks, voice-over Internet Protocol, surveillance tools and forensic techniques.

Richard Salgado is a faculty member of the SANS Institute and was previously a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center, George Mason Law School and the National Judicial College. Richard Salgado graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Mexico and in 1989 received his J.D. from Yale Law School.