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, police surveillance, and survey evidence in federal cases. 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
- Deepfake Privacy: Attitudes and Regulation, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-04, ___ Northwestern University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2021) (with Carly Pace).
- Constitutional Pandemic Surveillance, 111 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 909 (2021) (with Mariana Oliver).
- Protecting Energy Privacy Across the Public/Private Divide, 72 Florida Law Review 451 (2020) (with Meredith Hurley).
- 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).
- The Materiality of Sponsorship Confusion, 50 U.c. Davis Law Review 1911 (2017).
- Actual Expectations of Privacy, Fourth Amendment Doctrine, and the Mosaic Theory, 2015 Supreme Court Review 205 (2016) (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