James T. O'Reilly has been a successful legal author since 1977, when his first treatise on privacy and information law became a widely used reference, and the U.S. Supreme Court quoted his FDA text in 2000 with the words, "The experts have written..." He is a former state police officer in New York and has taught criminal law, among other courses, at the University of Cincinnati. His articles have appeared in law journals at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, and other schools, for a total of 164 published articles, and his 35 texts have earned more than a million dollars in author royalties and have been widely cited by federal and state courts. He formerly served at Procter & Gamble as Associate General Counsel and is Vice-Mayor of a small Ohio city. In 2008, he completed work as Assistant Chief Reporter of the Project on European Union Administrative Law, funded by the EU and the American Bar Association. He was Section Chair of the 16,000-member Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association in 1996-97. He is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he is a member of the Dean's Council.