Antony Haynes

Biography

B.S., U.S. Air Force Academy
M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Antony Haynes joined Albany Law School in December 2015. He has extensive litigation experience in the intellectual property, securities, and criminal defense areas.

He served as an associate at the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, in Washington, D.C., and before that at Williams & Connolly LLP, in Washington, D.C.

Prior to practicing law, Antony was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he taught courses in programming, developed the Academy’s Information Assurance curriculum, and created the intercollegiate Cyber Defense Exercise. He has extensive experience with a host of software and hardware technologies, including Cisco routers, Motorola microprocessors, TCP/IP networking protocols, SQL databases, and web-based programming. He developed an on-line survey-system for the Department of Epidemiology at a major university.

After the Air Force Academy he was an associate at Chatham Financial Corporation, Capital Markets, Kennett Square, Pa., where he led a company-wide software effort, wrote financial software and coordinated technical developers.

He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was recognized as the top computer science graduate. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, where his thesis focused on machine learning and expert systems.

He is an entrepreneur who leverages his background in computer science, technology, business and the law to advise startup companies. In addition to advising startups, he has spent time acquiring and growing companies.

In the News

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives; Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law; and Professor of Law Antony Haynes was featured in the City and State, “New York’s progressive chief judge joins with conservatives to expand DNA searches by law enforcement,” on October 30, 2023.

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor Antony Haynes was featured in the Law.com story, “Antony Haynes Joins Dorf & Nelson LLP to Head Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice Group,” on April 3, 2023.

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives; Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law; Associate Professor of Law Antony Haynes was a co-author of the op-ed, “Meaningful diversity efforts require an inclusion report card,” on February 7, 2023.

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, and Associate Professor of Law Antony Haynes was featured in the Albany Times-Union news story, "Facebook users beware: Innocent personal details you share are hacker's gold," on Sept. 29, 2021.

Dean Antony Haynes was quoted in the Campus Safety Magazine feature story, "AI-Based School Surveillance Raises Student Privacy Concerns" on Dec. 18, 2019.

Dean Antony Haynes was quoted in the Albany Times Union article "Schools monitor kids with vape, sound detectors and now facial recognition" on Dec. 13, 2019.

Associate Dean Antony Haynes was profiled in the Modern Counsel article "Albany Law School's Antony Haynes Has a Human Take on Tech" on October 29, 2018.

Associate Dean Antony Haynes was quoted in the American Banker article "Facing up to bias in facial recognition" on May 29, 2018.

Associate Dean Antony Haynes was quoted in the State Press (Arizona State University) article "Autonomous weapons and racist computers" on May 21, 2018.

Associate Dean Antony Haynes was interviewed for the IAPP Privacy Advisor article "New certificate in cybersecurity and data privacy law responds to student demand" published on April 24, 2018.