Christopher Pereira

Biography

Christopher Pereira is a software industry attorney, practicing corporate and transactional law, with prior experience in the financial services industry. He specializes in negotiating complex technology transactions and helping highly regulated entities meet their regulatory compliance and information security obligations. He has presented within the legal profession on artificial intelligence law, cloud computing, SaaS contracting, privacy, and data protection.

Christopher Pereira has been an Adjunct Professor in the Knight School of Communication since 2013. He teaches Media Law & Ethics and has also taught Mass Communication Theory. His areas of academic expertise include constitutional law, contract law, privacy law, and the philosophy of ethics. His research interests include internet privacy, the evolution of First Amendment rights in the digital age, and the general effect of the proliferation of digital literacy within society. In addition to Queens, he has taught Media Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was an Instructor at the Washington Post Company.

Christopher Pereira received his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he studied constitutional law under United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Prior to his legal studies, he received both his Bachelor of Science, Business Administration in Marketing and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Appalachian State University.