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The High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University School of Law will receive $25,000 from Intel’s Privacy Curriculum Initiative to support the creation of a new course to teach law, business, and engineering students how to communicate and solve problems together.
The course content will be developed in conjunction with Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering; Leavey School of Business; and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Undergraduate and graduate students from each school will be offered the chance to take the course, which could cover topics including privacy in the design process; drafting effective and accurate privacy policies; developing best‐practice cybersecurity procedures; finding and responding to security vulnerabilities and data breaches; and handling privacy audits.
Santa Clara Law hopes to develop the curriculum and offer the first course sometime in 2016.
The grant was made by the Intel Corporation through its Higher Education Program, Privacy Curriculum Initiative, the mission of which is to develop a pipeline of students who understand today’s multidisciplinary privacy challenges and can help create privacy-aware technologies. The initiative seeks to support faculty to create privacy curriculum content that will tackle the challenges society is facing today.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for our students in business, law, engineering and ethics to learn from one another about the myriad ways that privacy has to be built into today’s technology,” said Assistant Clinical Professor Laura Norris, director of the Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic and principal investigator for the grant. “This cross-disciplinary approach is a perfect complement to the High Tech Law Institute’s cutting-edge privacy courses and strong focus on effective client interviewing and counseling.”
About Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara University School of Law, one of the nation’s most diverse law schools, is dedicated to educating lawyers who lead with a commitment to excellence, ethics, and social justice. Santa Clara Law offers students an academically rigorous program including certificates in high tech law, international law, public interest and social justice law, and privacy law, as well as numerous graduate and joint degree options. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara Law is nationally distinguished for its faculty engagement, preparation for practice, and top-ranked programs in intellectual property. For more information, see law.scu.edu.
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