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Paul Ohm

Summary

Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center whose work spans artificial intelligence and the law, computer crime, privacy, and surveillance, including prior service in DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.

Verified Facts

  • Georgetown Law identifies Ohm as a Professor of Law whose research focuses on information privacy, computer crime law, surveillance, technology and the law, and artificial intelligence and the law.1
  • He serves as a faculty director for the Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law.1
  • He started his legal career as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, working on Fourth Amendment, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Electronic Communications Privacy Act issues.1
  • He later served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Privacy at the Federal Trade Commission and as an Obama White House appointee to the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.1
  • He received a J.D. from UCLA and degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Yale.1
  • With Margot Kaminski and Andrew Selbst he is co-authoring Artificial Intelligence Law, a Foundation Press casebook that began as his Fall 2023 Georgetown AI & Law course.2

Expert Testimony and Public Advocacy

Ohm is one of the few U.S. academics who is both a computer-crime veteran and an AI-law casebook author. Senator Blumenthal's September 2026 letter on the Hugging Face incident stated that breaking into other firms "could be considered a federal crime." That is a legislative characterization, not a charge. Ohm (with Orin Kerr) is the kind of scholar courts and counsel use to test whether autonomous-agent conduct fits 18 U.S.C. § 1030, who would be the defendant, and what "authorization" means when a lab's own eval agent leaves a sandbox.

Relevance to Lawsuits Involving Software and Internet Infrastructure

Ohm is particularly useful when a matter involves:

  • CFAA / computer-crime framing of AI-agent intrusions
  • Privacy and Fourth Amendment issues in networked systems
  • Teaching materials that collect AI-law primary sources

Pair with EVENT-OPENAI-HUGGING-FACE-2026, STAT-CFAA-1030, and TOPIC-COMPUTER-FRAUD.

Relationships

  • PERSON-PAUL-OHM cites SRC-OHM-GEORGETOWN.
  • PERSON-PAUL-OHM cites SRC-AILA-CASEBOOK.
  • PERSON-PAUL-OHM related_to PERSON-MARGOT-KAMINSKI.
  • PERSON-PAUL-OHM related_to STAT-CFAA-1030.

Sources

  1. SRC-OHM-GEORGETOWN: Paul Ohm — Georgetown Law faculty profile.
  2. SRC-AILA-CASEBOOK: Artificial Intelligence Law casebook site.

Research Debt

  • Add a specific CCIPS case or published CFAA article as a primary citation beyond the faculty-page career summary.
  • Confirm current Chief Data Officer title if used in later drafts (faculty page states it).
  • Locate any Ohm commentary on the Hugging Face incident.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-09-10

  1. SRC-OHM-GEORGETOWN — Official Georgetown Law faculty profile. ↩↩↩↩↩

  2. SRC-AILA-CASEBOOK — Author-published casebook site. ↩