Victoria Schwartz

Prof. Victoria Schwartz

Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law

Professor Schwartz's research examines the complex interactions between privacy law and the private sector. Her most recent article, "Corporate Privacy Failures Start at the Top", was selected by peer-reviewed processes for both the prestigious 2016 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum as well as the Amsterdam Privacy Law Scholars Conference and is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. Professor Schwartz received the 2015-2016 Dean's Award for Excellence in Scholarship for her article "Overcoming the Public-Private Divide in Privacy Analogies." Her scholarship has received recognition in a wide variety of fields as her various work has both been selected for inclusion in the Securities Law Review, an annual anthology of the best securities law articles, as well as awarded the competitive Dukeminier Award, annually recognizing the best legal scholarship published on the topics of sexual orientation and gender identity.

At Pepperdine, Professor Schwartz teaches intellectual property law, copyright law, entertainment law, and a unique experiential learning seminar called "Business Perspectives on Workplace Privacy," which is designed to help students learn to advise a client in rapidly evolving fields. Professor Schwartz joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 from the University of Chicago Law School where she was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Professor Schwartz previously practiced law as part of the Business Trial and Litigation practice of the Century City, California office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Her practice included complex and appellate litigation, contract law, entertainment law, and intellectual property. While at O'Melveny, Professor Schwartz taught at the UCLA Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic and co-authored an article about areas of uncertainty in trademark law. Professor Schwartz graduated in 2004 from Stanford University where she received a BA in Political Science with departmental honors and distinction, a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures with distinction, and a BS in Mathematics with distinction. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007. Following graduation, Professor Schwartz clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Jay S. Bybee.

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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-B
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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-B

20th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference

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