2015 TIAA Lecture Series: Dr. Frank Pasquale
Author Dr. Frank Pasquale is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
His top-selling book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information, exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to control them. Pasquale’s research addresses challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology, particularly in the health care, internet, and finance industries. He is a member of the National Science Foundation-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, and an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.
Pasquale has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Cardozo Law School. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. He has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, and has presented before a Department of Health & Human Services/Federal Trade Commission Roundtable and panels of the National Academy of Sciences.
He served on an American Academy of Arts and Sciences working group on the future of mobile health (mHealth) regulation. He also has received a commission from Triple Canopy to write and present on the political economy of automation.
Pasquale serves on the Advisory Boards of Patient Privacy Rights and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He has served on the executive board of the Health Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), and has served as chair of the AALS section on Privacy and Defamation.
Dr. Pasquale graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University, earned a master’s degree at Oxford University and a doctoral degree at Yale Law School.