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

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Mary Anne Franks is the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami, where she is a professor of law. She is also the president and legislative and tech policy director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to combating online abuse and discrimination. Franks’s areas of expertise include First Amendment law, law and technology, criminal law and procedure, and family law. She is the author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech. Franks is an affiliate fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a member of the American Law Institute and District of Columbia bar.