Woodrow Hartzog

Woodrow Hartzog is a TPRI Faculty Fellow and a Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law. His research focuses on the relationship between law, technology, and privacy. His work has been published in numerous scholarly publications such as the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Michigan Law Review and popular publications such as BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Wired, Bloomberg, New Scientist, Slate, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor and The Nation. He has been quoted or referenced by numerous media outlets, including NPR, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. Before joining Boston University, he served as a Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University and the Starnes Professor of Law at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. He previously worked as a trademark attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in private practice. He has also served as a clerk for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an LL.M. in intellectual property from the George Washington University Law School and a J.D. from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. He is the author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press and the co-author with Daniel Solove of Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.