Michael Froomkin Explained

A. Michael Froomkin
Nationality:American
Workplaces:University of Miami School of Law
Occupation:Professor, legal scholar
Website:
Education:Yale University (BA)
University of Cambridge (MPhil)
Yale University (JD)

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]

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

Froomkin attended Sidwell Friends School[6] [7] before earning his B.A. in 1982 from Yale University in Economics and History, Latin: [[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

Froomkin's brother is the American journalist Dan Froomkin. He is married to University of Miami law professor Caroline Bradley.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A. Michael Froomkin . . en . 13 February 2024 .
  2. Web site: We Robot . . en . 13 February 2024 .
  3. Web site: Discourse.net . A. Michael Froomkin . en . 13 February 2024 .
  4. Web site: Advisory Board . . en.
  5. Web site: Advisory Board . . en . 13 February 2024 .
  6. News: 7 From Area Are Presidential Scholars . Lawrence . Feinberg . . April 23, 1978 . February 14, 2024 .
  7. News: Prof Posts Virtual Office . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20240214094258/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1996/07/14/prof-posts-virtual-office/ . July 14, 1996 . February 14, 2024 . February 14, 2024 .
  8. Web site: Center for Computational Science . . en . 13 February 2024 .
  9. Web site: Faculty Senate Names Professor A. Michael Froomkin as Distinguished Faculty Scholar . . en . February 2020 . 13 February 2024 .