Michael Froomkin


A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. 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 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
Froomkin is founder and editor of the online law review Jotwell, The Journal of Things We Like , 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 and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Education and career

Froomkin attended Sidwell Friends School before earning his B.A. in 1982 from Yale University in Economics and History, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction in History. He has an M.Phil in History of International Relations from the University of Cambridge, which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship. 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. He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 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.
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, and a member of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science. In 2020 the University of Miami awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.

Publications

  • University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-22, TPRC 2003
  • , jointly published in 21 Yale J.L. & Tech. 27.
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