Peter
Swire
General Information
Email:
swire@gatech.edu
Phone:
2409944142
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
10th floor
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Website URL
Details
Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
J.D.
Subject
Law
Year
1985
Institution
Yale
Location
New Haven CT USA
Degree Type
B.A.
Subject
Public and International Affairs (Economics)
Year
1980
Institution
Princeton
Location
Princeton NJ USA
Statement of Research Interests:
Professor Swire’s research focuses on privacy and cybersecurity, with a particular focus on the governance of cross-border data flows. He is the lead author of the textbook to be certified as a U.S. privacy professional, now in its fourth edition.
Statement of Teaching Interests:
Professor Swire has taught a range of courses on privacy and cybersecurity, for both undergraduate and graduate students. Other courses at Georgia Tech have included Introduction to Business Law, and Computing and Society. As a law professor, before coming to Georgia Tech, Professor Swire’s broad interests were reflected in his teaching at least 17 different courses.
Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:
- Peter Swire & Samm Sacks, “Personal Data as a Dual-Use Technology: Critically Assessing the New Alliance of Privacy and National Security,” Virginia Journal of International Law (2026).
- “Privacy and Democracy: Protecting Journalists & the Political Opposition from Abuse of Power,” (Springer 2026).
- Peter Swire & DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, “The Risks to Cybersecurity from Data Localization — Organizational Effects,” 8 Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technology 3 (2025).
- Iain Nash, DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Peter Swire & Annie Antón, “Legal Issues in Reconciling Data Protection, AI, and Cybersecurity under EU Law,” 89 Missouri Law Review 871 (2024).
- Peter Swire, DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Drew Bagley, Sven Krasser, Avani Modak & Christoph Bausewein, “Risks to cybersecurity from data localization, organized by techniques, tactics and procedures,” Journal of Cyber Policy, 9:1, 20-51 (2024).
- Peter Swire & DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, U.S. Private Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals, 4th edition (International Association of Privacy Professionals, 2024).