[alac-comments] Nominating Committee

["David E. Sorkin" <david@xxxxxxxx>]

I wish to be considered for appointment to ICANN's Nominating 
Committee.  A biographical statement appears below.  Thank you.

     David E. Sorkin
     Associate Professor of Law
     The John Marshall Law School
     Chicago, Illinois, USA
     david@xxxxxxxx





David E. Sorkin is an Associate Professor of Law at The John Marshall 
Law School in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  He is affiliated with John 
Marshall's Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, and 
focuses much of his work on Internet law and policy, informational 
privacy, and consumer protection.  Since 2000 he has served as a 
panelist for eResolution, the National Arbitration Forum, and the 
World Intellectual Property Organization, in domain name dispute 
proceedings under ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy.

He is a graduate of Indiana University (B.S. 1985, B.A. 1985, M.L.S. 
1991) and Harvard University (J.D. 1988).  Before joining John 
Marshall's faculty in 1991, he clerked for an appellate court judge in 
Indiana and taught at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.  
In 1999-2000 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Research and 
Education in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue 
University.  In 2001 and 2002 he taught summer school courses in 
privacy and cyberlaw at Southern Cross University in Australia.

For the past several years he has studied the phenomenon of 
unsolicited bulk and commercial e-mail, or "spam."  His Spam Laws 
web site provides information about spam-related legislation in 
the USA and elsewhere.  He has spoken about spam at numerous 
conferences, most recently as keynote speaker for a conference of 
the Information Network Law Association in Japan (December 2002).  
Other subjects of his research include Internet governance, dispute 
resolution, online payment systems, and ATM surcharges.