Ten Years Hence 2020: Mark McKenna

Privacy in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism

Mark McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Acting Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center

Mark P. McKenna is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Acting Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center.  His research focuses on intellectual property and privacy law, with a particular focus on the ways different regulatory regimes interact with each other. He has published more than 50 articles in leading journals and was the author or co-author of 5 of the 10 most-cited articles in his field during the period of a recent study.

Professor McKenna joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty on a permanent basis in the Fall of 2008 after visiting for a semester in the Spring of 2008.  He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Turin University-WIPO Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Program. Before entering the academy in 2003, Professor McKenna practiced with the intellectual property firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, where he litigated trademark and copyright cases and advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters.  He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia School of Law.

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The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty and the community use guest speaker comments as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.

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May 6, 2020

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