Mary Anne Franks
Professor of Law and Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair, University of Miami School of Law; President and Legislative and Tech Policy Director, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Dr. Mary Anne Franks is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington Law School, and was previously the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law. Dr. Franks is also the President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director of the nonprofit organization Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and the drafter of the first U.S. model criminal statute on nonconsensual pornography. She is the author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (2019); her new book, Fearless Speech, is expected next year. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her D.Phil. and M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Previously
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