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Speaker Profiles and Acknowledgements a Symposium on Privacy and Security: Ucla Joins the National Debate Ucla School of Law | April 25, 2014 SPEAKER PROFILES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A SYMPOSIUM ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY: UCLA JOINS THE NATIONAL DEBATE UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW | APRIL 25, 2014 WELCOME RACHEL MORAN Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Rachel F. Moran is the Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Prior to her appointment at UCLA, Professor Moran was the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. From July 2008 to June 2010, Moran served as a founding faculty member of the UC Irvine Law School. Dean Moran received her A.B. in Psychology with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University in 1978, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981, where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and worked for the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. From 1993 to 1996 Moran served as chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Social Change, and in 2003, she became the director of the Institute. In 2009, she was appointed as President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). JEFFREY LEWIS Chair and Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science Jeffery Lewis is the Chairman and Associate Professor in the UCLA Political Science Department. Dr. Lewis joins the faculty at UCLA after teaching at Princeton University. His interests include political methodology, formal theory, and American elections and legislative institutions. His dissertation, “Who do Representatives Represent?”, considers the links between constituency preferences and roll-call voting in the California Assembly. He has also written on direct democracy, models of voting behavior, and methods of ecological inference in such journals as Political Analysis, Historical Methods, and World Development. He holds a B.A. with honors in Political Science from Wesleyan University and a PhD. in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JIM DAVIS Vice Provost of IT and Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA Jim Davis is UCLA's Vice Provost, Information Technology, and Chief Academic Technology Officer, an executive leadership role focused on UCLA’s academic research and education mission. Jim has broad oversight of campuswide planning, governance, and strategic investment of IT, manages the Office of Information Technology, and has responsibility for the Institute for Digital Research and Education. Included in his portfolio are UCLA’s digital presence, cyberinfrastructure, informatics, policy, mobility, and the Office of the UCLA Chief Privacy Officer. Among the many initiatives Jim is involved with, he currently co-leads a national initiative on Smart Manufacturing and U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. Jim is also a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA, where his research interests are in the areas of data analysis, decision support, and intelligent systems. 1 CYNTHIA C. LEBOW Lecturer, UCLA Department of Political Science Cynthia Lebow is a Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Political Science, where she teaches courses on the Supreme Court and Constitutional law. During the Winter Quarter, 2014, she taught a seminar on the topic of privacy versus national security, which was the genesis of this symposium. She previously served as the General Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee under then-Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE). She is a cum lade graduate in Political Science from UCLA, where she took the very classes that she now teaches, and subsequently earned a J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law. Lebow previously served as the Associate Director of the RAND Institute of Civil Justice and has practiced law in Washington DC and Los Angeles. PANEL ONE: WHAT IS PRIVACY AND DOES IT MATTER ANY MORE? | 10:00-11:45 MODERATOR KENT WADA UCLA Chief Privacy Officer and Director, Strategic IT Policy UC Presidential Privacy and Information Security Initiative Working Group Chair Kent was designated UCLA chief privacy officer in October 2012, the first in the University of California system with an overarching privacy mandate. In this role, Kent works with campus and systemwide colleagues, and the executive committee of the UCLA Board on Privacy and Data Protection, to address the many privacy challenges that affect the campus community and the University mission. Kent is also director, strategic IT policy and in this role, works broadly across the campus and system to shape the institutional agenda for technology policy issues of strategic concern to the campus – privacy, copyright, accessibility, participating fully as a digital citizen and more. Kent has held a number of different positions at UCLA since 1990. He put up the first page at www.ucla.edu in 1993, subsequently jointly leading the development of UCLA’s gateway pages through its first three major incarnations; jointly led the development of the campus’s strategy for curbing illegal file sharing; was UCLA’s first IT security officer; and is now UCLA’s first chief privacy officer. Kent has chaired a number of higher education advisory and policy committees related to information technology and has spoken widely on policy and privacy topics. Kent’s personal interest continues to be in the application of emergent technologies to people’s lives in a manner respectful of civil liberties in the digital realm. PANELISTS ADAM MOORE Associate Professor, Information School and Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington Author, Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations Author, Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power Adam Moore is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Ohio State University. He teaches and publishes in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, and information control. 2 BRUCE FEIN Bruce Fein & Associates Constitutional lawyer, author, scholar Author, Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy Mr. Fein served as associate deputy attorney and general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under President Ronald Reagan. He served as Research Director for Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran, and on the American Bar Association’s Committee on Presidential Signing Statements. He has been a Visiting Fellow for the Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct scholar at American Enterprise Institute. He has advised numerous countries on constitutional reform, including South Africa, Hungary, and Russia. Mr. Fein graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1972. He has worked in and out of government in Washington, D.C. for 39 years, and penned a weekly column for The Washington Times for more than two decades. He is a frequent witness before Congress. Mr. Fein is the founding member of Bruce Fein & Associates, Inc., and is a principal of a public advocacy organization, The Lichfield Group. He is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire Before the Fall. JULIA ANGWIN Investigative Reporter, ProPublica Former Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal (part of team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize) Author, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, was published by Times Books in 2014. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009). She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. KEYNOTE LUNCHEON SPEECH: CAN WE BE SAFE WITHOUT SACRIFICING CIVIL LIBERTIES? | 12:30-1:45 CINDY COHN Legal Director and General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation National Law Journal, “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, 2013” Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa and the London School of Economics. For 10 years prior to joining the EFF, she was a civil litigator in private practice handling technology related cases. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in both 2006 and 2013. In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. 3 Ms. Cohn serves as counsel in Jewel v. NSA, and First Unitarian Church v. NSA, each seeking to stop the ongoing dragnet warrantless surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. Ms. Cohn also served as coordinating counsel for over forty national class action lawsuits against the telecommunications carriers and the government seeking to stop the warrantless surveillance. EFF filed the first such case, Hepting v. AT&T, in 2006 against telecom giant AT&T for violating its customers’ privacy. EFF represents service providers who have brought challenges to the National Security Letter statute, which was dramatically expanded as part of the USA Patriot Act, including placing broad and permanent gag orders on providers.
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