Professor Warner is the faculty director of Chicago-Kent's Center for Law and Computers. From 1994 to 1996, he was president of InterActive Computer Tutorials, a software company, and from 1998 to 2000, he was director of Building Businesses on the Web, an Illinois Institute of Technology executive education program concerning e-commerce.
He is the director of the School of American Law, a Chicago-Kent–affiliated international educational program with branches in several countries.
Professor Warner's research concerns the regulation of online privacy, security, and competition. He has lectured on Internet security at the second United Nations Economic Commission for Europe workshop "E-Regulations: E-Security and Knowledge Economy" in Geneva, Switzerland, and, at the invitation of the FBI, on global cybercrime before the Chicago Crime Commission. He was the principal investigator for "Using Education to Combat White Collar Crime," a U.S. State Department grant devoted to combating money laundering in Ukraine from 2000 to 2006. He is currently a member of the U.S. Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Taskforce.
Professor Warner earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he served on the Southern California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and he received his B.A. (with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa) in English from Stanford University.
Professor Warner joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1990. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Contracts, Remedies, Jurisprudence, , and courses on information privacy and security. His recent books (all co-authored with Robert Sloan) include Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security Why Don’t We Defend Better? Data Breaches, Risk Management, and Public Policy, and The Privacy Fix: How To Preserve Privacy In The Onslaught Of Surveillance.
Education
J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Stanford University
Publications
Articles
The Ethics of the Algorithm: Autonomous Systems and the Wrapper of Human Control, 48 Cumberland Law Review 1 (2018) (with Robert H. Sloan).
The Self, the Stasi, the NSA: Privacy, Knowledge, and Complicity in the Surveillance State, 17 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology 347 (2016) (with Robert H. Sloan).
Undermined Norms: The Corrosive Effect of Information Processing Technology on Informational Privacy, 55 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1047 (2011).
Surveillance and the Self: Privacy, Identity, and Technology, 54 DePaul Law Review 847 (2005).
Border Disputes: Trespass to Chattels on the Internet, 47 Villanova Law Review 117 (2002).
Does Incommensurability Matter? Incommesurability and Public Policy, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1287 (1998).
Why Pragmatism? The Puzzling Place of Pragmatism in Critical Theory,1993 University of Illinois Law Review 535 (1993).
Three Theories of Legal Reasoning, 62 Southern California Law Review 1523 (1989).
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Affiliations
J.D. Certificate Program in Intellectual Property Law; Project Poland
Expertise
Contracts; Internet Law and Online Security; Jurisprudence and Philosophy; Privacy; Science and Technology