David E. Sorkin
Associate Professor of Law
B.S.Bus., Indiana University
Center for Information Technology
and Privacy Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Telephone: +1 312 987-2387
E-mail: david@sork.com
Web: http://www.sork.com/
B.A., Indiana University
M.L.S., Indiana University
J.D., Harvard Law School
David Sorkin joined the John Marshall Law School faculty in 1991. Previously he clerked for a state appellate judge in Indiana and taught at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. In 1999-2000 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Research and Education in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University. In 2001 and 2002 he taught courses in privacy and cyberlaw at Southern Cross University's Byron Bay Summer Law School in Australia. He has taught courses in legal writing, research, and analysis since 1990, and has written several articles on communication skills for lawyers. In 1994 he created John Marshall's original web site, and the following year he began teaching one of the first law school courses on cyberspace law. His publications and teaching materials on cyberspace law and computer-assisted legal research have been used at law schools around the world.
Sorkin has written and spoken widely about Internet policy, privacy, and consumer protection issues. In 1997 he was invited to participate in a Federal Trade Commission workshop on consumer information privacy in Washington, D.C., to address the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam"; he also participated in the FTC's Spam Forum in 2003. He testified about ATM surcharge legislation at a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in 1997, and at a joint committee hearing of the New York City Council in 2000. In 2002 he participated in conferences on Internet governance and cyberliberties in Sydney, Australia; spoke about spam for the National Conference of State Legislatures in New Orleans; presented the keynote address at a conference on spam regulation held in Kyoto, Japan; and organized a program on spam at John Marshall. In 2003 he created and taught the first law school course on spam and e-mail marketing. His web sites on Spam Laws and other topics are frequently cited as authorities. He is a member of the National Arbitration Forum national panel of arbitrators, and is a panelist for ICANN Internet domain name disputes for NAF and the World Intellectual Property Organization. He joined the Advisory Board of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 2003. In 2005 he completed the American Bar Association's Arbitration Training Institute.
He serves on the faculty of John Marshall's Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law and LL.M. and M.S. Programs in Information Technology Law, and as a faculty advisor for its International Moot Court Competition and The Journal of Computer & Information Law. He has taught several courses at John Marshall, including Consumer Law, Cyberspace Law, Information Law & Policy, Internet Policy Issues in Education, Introduction to Information Technology Law, Lawyering Skills, Regulation of Spam and Email Marketing, and Transborder Data Flow.