Daniel J. Solove

Who is Daniel J. Solove?

Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the world’s leading expert in information privacy law and is well-known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology. His deconstruction of the “I’ve got nothing to hide” position, and related justifications for government surveillance, has been regarded as the best brief analysis of the issue.

Daniel Solove is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and security training company.

In addition, he is co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.

Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature. He has written 9 books and more than 50 law review articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U. Pennsylvania Law Review, U.