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Peter Ormerod
Title: | Assistant Professor of Law |
Office Location: | Swen Parson 197D |
Office Phone: | 815-753-1068 |
Email: | pormerod@niu.edu |
Education: | B.A., George Washington University J.D., George Washington University Law School |
Peter Ormerod joined NIU in 2022. He teaches torts, business associations, and in the areas of privacy, technology, and consumer protection. Before joining NIU, Professor Ormerod was an Assistant Professor of Business Law at Western Carolina University.
Professor Ormerod’s research focuses on information privacy law, law & technology, and consumer protection law. He has published journal articles on the duty of data security, technology’s effects on the Fourth Amendment, and regulatory structures that enable the effective enforcement of privacy law. His current projects explore the business models enabled by the modern web and industry’s defenses of profit-driven surveillance.
Professor Ormerod earned a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, in economics from the George Washington University. Before entering academia, Professor Ormerod practiced in the Public Policy & Regulation Group of Holland & Knight’s Washington, DC, office.
Publications
- Privacy Law’s Incumbency Problem, 58 UC Davis Law Review (forthcoming 2024).
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Privacy Qui Tam, 98 Notre Dame Law Review 267 (2022).
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Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, 79 Washington & Lee Law Review 101 (2022).
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Privacy Injuries and Article III Concreteness, 48 Florida State University Law Review 133 (2021).
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A Private Enforcement Remedy for Information Misuse, 60 Boston College Law Review 1893 (2019).
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WannaCry, Ransomware, and the Emerging Threat to Corporations (with Lawrence J. Trautman), 86 Tennessee Law Review 503 (2019).
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Fourth Amendment and the Third-Party Doctrine in the Digital Age (with Lawrence J. Trautman), 28 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology 73 (2018).
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Industrial Cyber Vulnerabilities: Lessons from Stuxnet and the Internet of Things (with Lawrence J. Trautman), 72 University of Miami Law Review 761 (2018).
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Corporate Directors’ and Officers’ Standard of Care: The Yahoo Data Breach (with Lawrence J. Trautman), 66 American University Law Review 1231 (2017).
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