Andrea M. Matwyshyn Faculty Profile

Andrea M. Matwyshyn
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

PhD, Northwestern University, 2004; JD, Northwestern University, 1999; Doctoral Certificate, Northwestern University 1999; MA, Northwestern University, 1996; BA, Northwestern University, 1996

Research Areas
Corporate information security and risk management; information technology regulation and policy, contracts

Recent Consulting
McAfee, Inc.; Various confidential consultations regarding corporate information security strategy

Current Projects
Transformation in the corporate form and its relationship to the information technology revolution and data vulnerability; Legal strategies for combating information crime

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2007-present. University of Cambridge: 2003-present (Affiliate, Centre for Economics & Policy). Previous appointments: University of Florida School of Law; Northwestern University School of Law. Visiting appointment: University of Edinburgh, AHRB Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Other Positions
Associate, Corporate Group and Technology Group, Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chicago, Illinois, October 2001-August 2003; Associate, Corporate Group and e-Commerce Group, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, Illinois, September 1999-September 2001

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Curriculum Grant (with co-PI), 2005; Certified Senior Specialist Candidate, Technology Regulation and Corporate Law, Fulbright Foundation Advisory Board Member, SCRIPT-ed, Technology Journal of University of Edinburgh School of Law, 2004 – current http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/about.asp

Representative Publications
"Technoconsen(t)sus." Wash.U.L.Rev (2007).

"Technology, Commerce, Development, Identity." 8 Minn. J.L. Sci.& Tech 515 (2007).

"Mutually Assured Protection: Development of Relational Internet Security Contracting Norms." Chapter in Radin, A. Chander, L. Gelman (eds.), Securing Privacy in the Internet Age Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2007.

Chapter 10, in Cronin et al. West Treatise on Data Security and Privacy Law: Combating Cyberthreats, West-Thompson, 2006.

"Material Vulnerabilities: Data Privacy, Corporate Information Security and Securities Regulation." 3 Berkeley Bus. L. J. 129 (2005).

"Of Nodes and Power Laws: A Network Theory Approach to Internet Jurisdiction through Data Privacy." 98 Nw. L.Rev. 493 (2004).