Curriculum Vitae

University of Massachusetts School of Law (2011-present)

• Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2018-present)

• Professor of Law

• Director of Legal Skills (2011-present)

Law Office of Shaun Spencer, P.C. (2005-2011)

• Principal, handling primarily civil appellate matters and plaintiff-side employment disputes 

Harvard Law School (2000-2005)

• Acting Director, First-Year Lawyering Program (2004-2005)

• Lecturer on Law, First-Year Lawyering Program (2001-2004)

• Climenko-Thayer Teaching Fellow (2000-2001)

Boston College Law School

• Adjunct Professor (Advanced Legal Writing) (1998-2011)

Bingham Dana, LLP (1996-1999)

• Handled civil litigation at trial and appellate level, including libel defense, general commercial litigation and arbitration, and product liability defense

• Represented low-income clients in landlord-tenant disputes during public service rotation as housing attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services.

• Prosecuted jury and bench trials in OUI cases during public service rotation with the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.  

Law Clerk to Honorable David M. Cohen, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine (1995-1996)

LL.M., Harvard Law School (2001)

• Master's Thesis: Reasonable Expectations and the Erosion of Privacy

JD, magna cum laude, Boston College Law School (1995)

• Managing Editor, Boston College Law Review

• Order of the Coif

BA, cum laude, History, Boston College (1991)

Practice Related:

• Massachusetts Legal Research, Second Edition (Carolina Academic Press 2016) (co-author with E. Joan Blum)

• Words Count: The Empirical Relationship Between Brief Writing and Summary Judgment Success, 22 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 61 (2018), with Adam Feldman.

• Using Empirical Analysis to Study Legal Writing, 20 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 141 (2015).

• Preserving Appellate Rights When Moving for Reconsideration, Mass. Lawyers Weekly, Aug. 30, 2010.

• Wage Act Claims: The SJC Giveth, and the SJC Taketh Away, Mass. Lawyers Weekly, Nov. 21, 2005.

• Dr. King, Bull Connor, and Persuasive Narratives, 2 J. Assoc. Leg. Writing Dir. 209 (2004).

Academic:

• The Evolution of International Communications Technology and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Regulation, 25 Nev. L.J. 59 (2024)

• Alternatives to Content Moderation: Social Media Labeling Mandates and the Zauderer Test, 93 UMKC L. Rev. 35 (2024)

• The First Amendment and the Regulation of Speech Intermediaries, 106 Marq. L. Rev. 1 (2022).

• Two First Amendment Futures: Consumer Privacy Law and the Deregulatory First Amendment, 2020 Mich. St. L. Rev. 897.

• The Problem of Online Manipulation, 2020 U. Ill. L. Rev. 959.

• Digital Disruption: Potential Fourth Amendment Approaches to Predictive Surveillance, 46:2 Search & Seizure Law Report 15 (2019).

• Predictive Surveillance and the Threat to Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, 14 I/S: Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 109 (2017).

• When Targeting Becomes Secondary: A Framework for Regulating Predictive Surveillance in Anti-Terrorism Investigations, 92 Denv. U. L. Rev. 493 (2016).

• Predictive Analytics, Consumer Privacy, and E-Commerce, in Research Handbook on Electronic Commerce Law, John A. Rothchild ed., (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016).

• Privacy and Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce, 49 N.E. L. Rev. 102 (2015).

• Data Aggregation and the Fourth Amendment, 19 J. Internet L. 13 (Oct. 2015).

• The Aggregation Principle and the Future of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, 41 N.E. J. Civ. & Crim. Confinement 289 (2015).

• The Surveillance Society and the Third-Party Privacy Problem, 65 S.C. L. Rev. 373 (2013).

• Reasonable Expectations and the Erosion of Privacy, in Studies on Privacy in Contemporary America: The Definition, Typology, Basis and Analytic Method of Privacy in America 457 (Zhang Min an ed., Sun Yat-sen University Press 2013) (Chinese translation). 

• GPS Monitoring Device Leads the Supreme Court to a Crossroads in Privacy Law, 46 New Eng. L. Rev. On Remand 45 (2012).

• Nevada Case Threatens to Expand Terry Stops, Boston Bar J., Mar.-Apr. 2004, at 27.

• Security Versus Privacy: Reframing the Debate, 79 Denv. U. L. Rev. 519 (2002).

• Reasonable Expectations and the Erosion of Privacy, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 845 (2002).

• CyberSLAPP Suits and John Doe Subpoenas: Balancing Anonymity and Accountability in Cyberspace, 19 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 493 (2001).

Practice Related:

• Linguistic Fluency and Judicial Decision Making, in Using Empirical Methods in Legal Communication, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, July 2022.

• Brief Readability and Summary Judgment Success, in Weird Science: The Empirical Study of Legal Writing, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Marquette University School of Law, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 2018.

• Empirical Analysis of Legal Writing, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2014. 

• Persuasive Narratives, Suffolk University Law School, New England Legal Writing Consortium Conference, Dec. 13, 2002. 

Academic:

• Program Redesign for the NextGen Bar Exam, New England Legal Writing Conference, Boston University, November 22, 2024 (with Betsy Byra, Jennifer Davis, and Rebecca Moor).

• Evolution of International Communications Technology and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Regulation, UMass Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Colloquium, Boston, Massachusetts, Apr. 2024.

• TransAtlantic Data Transfers and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Regulation—The United States Perspective, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Schmalkalden, Germany, December 2022.

• Mandatory Social Media Labeling and the Zauderer Test, Loyola Chicago Consumer Law Review Symposium: Consumer Protection in the Online Ecosystem, April 2022.

• The First Amendment and Big Tech Censorship (debate with UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh), UMass Law chapter of the Federalist Society, April 2021.

• Conversation with Institutional Leaders, Panelist, Association of Legal Writing Directors Leadership Academy, Suffolk University Law School, May 2019.

• Consumer Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Rewriting the Rules, COMPAS Conference: Targeting with Big Data, Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values, March 2019.

• Predictive Surveillance and the Threat to Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Symposium, Predictive Analytics, Law and Policy: Mapping the Terrain, Mar. 2017

• Public Service Work in the Required Legal Writing Curriculum: The Community Research Project, poster presentation, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Portland, Oregon, July 2016. 

• The Digital Revolution and the Limits of Surveillance Regulation, Boston College, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Surveillance in a Surveillance-Concerned Society, Apr. 2015 

• Privacy and Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce, New England Law Review Spring 2015 Symposium: What Stays in Vegas, Feb. 2015. 

• Privacy and Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce, University of Michigan Technology and Communications Law Review Spring 2015 Symposium, Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Feb. 2015

• The Future of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, New England Journal of Civil and Criminal Confinement Symposium: Crime, Privacy, and Technology: The Wild West, Oct. 2014. 

• The Community Research Project Pilot Program, Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University, Bringing Outside In: Social Justice Collaborations in the Legal Writing Curriculum, June 2014. 

• When Targeting Becomes Secondary: A New Regulatory Framework for Predictive Surveillance in Foreign Intelligence Investigations, paper presentation, New England Regional Junior Faculty Scholarship Workshop, Feb. 2014.

• Big Data Pragmatism: A Framework for Regulating Pervasive Public Surveillance, paper presentation, University of Massachusetts School of Law Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange, Oct. 2013.

• The Surveillance Society and the Third Party Privacy Problem, paper presentation, Albany Law School Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop, Feb. 2013.

• Promoting Student Engagement Through Weekly Writing and Peer Review, Poster Presentation, UMass Dartmouth Office of Faculty Development Reflective Teaching Practice Award Presentation, Apr. 2012.

• Feedback Tensions, Harvard Law School, Introduction to Law Teaching course (guest presenter), Feb. 2002, Feb. 2003, Sept. 2003, Sept. 2004.