A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.[1] His work on technology law since the mid-1990s spans Internet governance and regulation, privacy, encryption, AI and medicine, drones, and robotics. In 2012, he co-founded the annual We Robot conference[2] with Ian Kerr and Ryan Calo in order to think ahead about the challenges to law and policy that widespread use of robots will bring. He blogs at Discourse.net[3]
A. Michael Froomkin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, legal scholar |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of Cambridge (MPhil) Yale University (JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Miami School of Law |
| Website | law discourse |
Froomkin is founder and editor of the online law review Jotwell, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), created as a space where legal academics can go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new scholarship relevant to the law. He is a member of the advisory boards of several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation[4] and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[5]
Education and career
editFroomkin attended Sidwell Friends School[6][7] before earning his B.A. in 1982 from Yale University in Economics and History, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction in History.[1] He has an M.Phil in History of International Relations from the University of Cambridge (1984), which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship.[1] Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987, where he served as Articles Editor of both The Yale Law Journal and The Yale Journal of International Law.[1] He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit,[1] and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois,[1] and went on to practice international arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before entering teaching at the University of Miami School of Law in 1992.[1]
Froomkin is a non-resident Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (Chatham House), and a member of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science.[8] In 2020 the University of Miami awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.[9]
Personal life
editFroomkin's brother is the American journalist Dan Froomkin. He is married to University of Miami law professor Caroline Bradley.
Publications
edit- ——— (1995). "The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution". University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 143 (3): 709. SSRN 2719011.
- ——— (1996). "Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases". University of Pittsburgh Journal of Law and Commerce. 15: 395.
- ——— (2000). "Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution" (PDF). Duke Law Journal. 50: 17. doi:10.2307/1373113. hdl:10535/3464. ISSN 0012-7086. JSTOR 1373113. LCCN sf82007022. OCLC 1567016. SSRN 252523.
- ——— (January 16, 2003). "Habermas@discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace". Harvard Law Review. 116: 749. JSTOR 1342583. SSRN 363840.
- Caroline Bradley; ——— (2004). "Virtual Worlds, Real Rules". New York Law School Law Review. 49. SSRN 1127722. University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-22, TPRC 2003
- ——— (2015). "Regulating Mass Surveillance as Privacy Pollution: Learning from Environmental Impact Statements". University of Illinois Law Review: 1713. SSRN 2400736.
- ——— (2017). "Lessons Learned Too Well: Anonymity in a Time of Surveillance". Ariz. L. Rev. 59: 95. SSRN 1930017.
- ——— (2019). "Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent" (PDF). Yale J. Health Pol. L. & Ethics. 18: 27. SSRN 3405482., jointly published in 21 Yale J.L. & Tech. 27 (special joint issue).
- ———; Ian Kerr; Joelle Pineau (2019). "When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of A Tort-Induced Over-Reliance On Machine Learning". Ariz. L. Rev. 61: 33. SSRN 3114347.
- ———; David B. Froomkin (2024). "Saving Democracy from the Senate". Utah Law Review. (forthcoming)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "A. Michael Froomkin". University of Miami. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ "We Robot". We Robot. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ "Discourse.net". A. Michael Froomkin. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ "Advisory Board". Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- ^ "Advisory Board". Electronic Privacy Information Center. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ Feinberg, Lawrence (April 23, 1978). "7 From Area Are Presidential Scholars". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ "Prof Posts Virtual Office". Sun Sentinel. July 14, 1996. Archived from the original on February 14, 2024. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ "Center for Computational Science". University of Miami. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ "Faculty Senate Names Professor A. Michael Froomkin as Distinguished Faculty Scholar". University of Miami. February 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2024.