Richard Warner

SAL Worldwide Director, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law IIT (Chicago, USA)

Professor Warner joined the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty in 1990. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Contracts, Remedies, Jurisprudence, Internet Law, and E-Commerce Law and has published several articles and books on philosophical and legal topics. 

He is the director of the School of American Law, a Chicago-Kent–affiliated international program with branches in several European countries. He is a visiting foreign professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, in the Intellectual Property Institute. He is of counsel at the SWC law firm in Warsaw, Poland.

Professor Warner's research concerns the regulation of online privacy, security, and competition. He was the principal investigator for "Using Education to Combat White Collar Crime," a U.S. State Department grant devoted to combating money laundering in Ukraine from 2000 to 2006. He is currently a member of the U.S. Secret Service's Electronic and Financial Crimes Taskforce, and he is a privacy ambassador for the CAPrice Consortium.

Professor Warner earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he served on the Southern California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and he received his B.A. (with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa) in English from Stanford University.

Education

J.D., University of Southern California
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Stanford University

At the SAL Program Prof. Warner teaches Online Contracting and Intellectual Property and E-Commerce courses.