Peter Ormerod

Associate Professor of Law

Biography

Peter Ormerod researches information privacy law and law and technology more broadly. 

His current work concerns the regulatory implications of how companies transform data into money. Recent projects have focused on firms’ personalization of products, services, and prices; antitrust law’s ability to discipline such practices; and the extent to which those practices are expressive. Works in progress study tort law’s role in regulating digital manipulation and the threats posed by engagement-maximizing personalization in generative artificial intelligence chatbots. 

He has previously published journal articles on the competition-law implications of new privacy laws, the duty of data security, technology’s effects on Fourth Amendment doctrine, and privacy law’s enforcement mechanisms. 

Before joining Villanova, Ormerod was an assistant professor of law at Northern Illinois University College of Law and an assistant professor of business law at Western Carolina University. Before entering academia, he practiced in the Public Policy & Regulation Group of Holland & Knight’s Washington, DC, office.

Practice Experience

• Law Clerk and Staff Attorney, Holland & Knight, LLP
• Judicial Intern, United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Recent Publications

Office: Rm 244, John F. Scarpa Hall
Phone: 610-519-6838

Courses and Seminars

• Torts
• Information Privacy Law
• Artificial Intelligence & the Law Seminar 

Education

• The George Washington University Law School, Juris Doctor
• The George Washington University, Bachelor of Arts