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Brian E. Ray

Co-Interim Dean, Leon M. & Gloria Plevin Professor of Law; Director, Center for Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection

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BIO

Co-Interim Dean Brian Ray started his teaching career at Cleveland State University College of Law in 2006 and most recently served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Online Programs. He helped to launch the Law College’s online J.D. program, which has nearly tripled first-year enrollment in the part-time program. His research focuses on cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI law and policy. He has been the principal investigator and part of interdisciplinary research teams that have received over $4.5 million for projects related to cybersecurity and data privacy education, surveillance technologies, and pandemic preparation and response. He co-founded and directs the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection and created and directs the online Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity & Data Privacy. He serves on the CyberOhio Advisory Board, which drafted Ohio’s first-in-the-nation incentive-based cybersecurity law and served on the Ohio Attorney General Facial Recognition Task Force. He also is expert in comparative constitutional law and spent 2013 as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa conducting research for his book Engaging with Social Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).

Education

  • BA
    Univeristy of Notre Dame
    Program of Liberal Studies and Japanese Studies
    1993
  • MA
    University of Pennsylvania
    East Asian Languages and Culture
    1998
  • JD
    The Ohio State University
    2001

Research Areas

  • Constitutional Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Civil Procedure

Courses

  • Civil Procedure
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Conflict of Laws
  • International Law
  • Legislation and Regulation
  • Externship Program