Biography
Mark Verstraete's undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Georgia lines up well with his legal work. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he worked as a research associate at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the University of California, Los Angeles' Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy, where his research used philosophical methods to examine how personal data should be regulated, as well as other emerging topics in privacy law.
In addition to his academic work, Verstraete practiced civil rights law with the firm Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt in Atlanta. He represented clients who had been wrongfully arrested or subjected to excessive force by police officers.
Mark is currently interested in the ancillary effects of privacy law, including how privacy law facilitates or undermines trust in commercial and interpersonal relationships, how privacy law facilitates the construction of training data for AI development, and how privacy rights support or undermine collective governance of data in the information economy.
Mark's previous work has been published or is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, Iowa Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, and others.
