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 (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 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, , Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction in History. 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 (special joint issue).

(forthcoming)