Matthew Kugler
Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-3568
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
SSRN Author Page
Assistant
Francesca Bullerman
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1570
Assistant Email
Francesca.Bullerman@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Matthew Kugler’s primary research areas are privacy, intellectual property, and criminal procedure. His recent research has addressed deepfakes, biometric privacy, dark patterns, and survey evidence in federal cases. He is the author of a free open-access casebook, Privacy Law: Cases and Materials. Prior to joining Northwestern, Matthew completed a Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy at Princeton University, was a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct instructor in psychology at Lehigh University and was awarded a JD with highest honors from the University of Chicago Law School. He also clerked for the Honorable Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit. In his time at Northwestern, Professor Kugler has taught privacy, trademark, cybercrime, trade secret, and the intellectual property survey course.
Areas of Expertise
- Privacy Law
- Empirical Methods
- Law and Social Science
- Intellectual Property
- Law & Technology
Courses
Selected Publications
- Privacy Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (2025).
- The Right of Publicity Can Save Actors from Deepfake Armageddon, 39 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 783 (2024) (with Alice Preminger).
- Public Perceptions Can Guide Regulation of Public Facial Recognition, 25 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 1 (2023).
- Deepfake Privacy: Attitudes and Regulation, 116 Northwestern University Law Review 611 (2021) (with Carly Pace).
- From Identification to Identity Theft: Public Perceptions of Biometric Privacy Harms, 10 UC Irvine Law Review 107 (2019).
- The Myth of Fourth Amendment Circularity, 84 University of Chicago Law Review 1747 (2017) (with Lior J. Strahilevitz).
Education
- JD, University of Chicago Law School
- PhD, Princeton University
- BA, Williams College
Prior Appointments
- Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
- Law Clerk, Honorable Richard Posner, Seventh Circuit