Contributors Editor JOHN PAUL RYAN was formerly Director of School Programs for the American Bar Association Division for Public Education, 541 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, IL 60611-3314. Contributors JUDITH WAGNER DECEW is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the College at Clark University. She specializes in ethics, philosophy of law, and social and political philosophy. She is the author of In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics, and the Rise of Technology (Cornell, 1997), a forthcoming essay on privacy and medical information for the journal, Social Philosophy and Policy, and co-editor (with Ian Shapiro) of Theory and Practice (NYU, 1995). Her research on privacy has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe/Harvard University. She is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. AMITAI ETZIONI is the first University Professor of The George Washington University and director of the university's Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. He has written widely on such subjects as complex organizations, social theory, democracy, and privacy. His books include The Active Society (Free Press, 1968), The Spirit of Community (Crown, 1993), and most recently, The Limits of Privacy (Basic Books, 1999). A past President of the American Sociological Association, he has testified many times before Congress and his voice is frequently heard in a wide variety of national media. He is founder of the Communitarian Network, a group of ethicists, social scientists, and community leaders who seek to restore social responsibilities and a commitment to community without Puritanism or authoritarianism. JOHN GILLIOM is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. His forthcoming book, The Overseer of the Poor: Welfare Surveillance, Everyday Resistance, and Life Beyond the Right of Privacy, explores how the words and actions of those who live under intensive surveillance challenge our prevailing ways of thinking about surveillance and privacy. Gilliom is the author of Surveillance, Privacy and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control (Michigan, 1994) as well as articles on law and the politics of surveillance. PRISCILLA REGAN is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Mason University. Her research focuses on the policy issues that arise as new communication and information technologies develop, as well as on related policy debates, outcomes, and rhetoric. She is the author of Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy (North Carolina, 1995), as well as of articles assessing the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, computer matching, and other communication privacy issues. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason, she served as a senior analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. DAVID E. SORKIN is Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law at John Marshall Law School. His research focuses on a variety of informational privacy issues, including intrusive forms of marketing and traditional privacy torts, and he is currently at work on a review of technical and legal responses to unsolicited e-mail. He has a special interest in transnational perspectives on privacy and information access, in particular those of the European Union. He is a member of the American Bar Association and its Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. HERB STRENTZ is a professor on the journalism and mass communication faculty at Drake University, where he teaches a graduate seminar on information policy. He serves on a number of boards, including the advisory council for IOWAccess, which advises the state government on policies and procedures for electronic access to public records. He is also the Executive Secretary for the Iowa FOI (Freedom of Information) Council, an umbrella organization of media representatives, lawyers, librarians, and others concerned about access to government information. Spring 2000 Issue Home | The 20th Century | Celebrity and Privacy | Privacy Abuses Driver's Privacy Protection Act | Legislation | Resources | Contributors Credits/Disclaimers| John Ryan Leaves ABA Focus on Law Studies Home | Subscribe to Focus | Questions/Ordering Back Issues