Expert Qualifications
This highly qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in Internet security and data privacy. He obtained his BA in journalism and mass communication from Samford University and his JD from the Samford University Cumberland School of Law, before receiving his LLM in intellectual property from The George Washington University and his PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Today, he is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Future of Privacy Forum, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is also very active in academia, having researched, presented, and published extensively on topics related to Internet security and data privacy. This expert previously served as a clerk at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as an associate attorney at Burr and Forman LLP, as the trademark examining attorney in the US Patent and Trademark Office, as an instructor of record in the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as a professor of law at the Samford University Cumberland School of Law. He is currently a professor of law and computer science, a faculty associate at the cybersecurity and privacy institute, and a faculty associate at the center for law, innovation and creativity at a top university in Massachusetts, a non-resident fellow in the institute for policy in medicine and law at a top university in Washington, an affiliate scholar at the center for internet and society at a top tier law school in California, a senior researcher at an international institute of law and information systems in Japan, and a faculty associate at the center for internet and society at an Ivy League law school in Massachusetts.
