Advisory Board

Michael Froomkin is a professor of law at University of Miami School of Law and an expert in Internet law and constitutional law. He maintains a personal site at http://www.discourse.net, and is an editor of http://www.icannwatch.org/.

Paul Grewal is a partner at Day Casebeer and an expert in high tech law. He is admitted to practice before various federal courts, as well as before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Jim Griffin is the CEO of Cherry Lane Digital, a company dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery. Griffin also founded the Pho list, where thousands of members meet to discuss digital media.

David Hayes is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Fenwick & West LLP and is an expert on copyright law and digital media. He has served as counsel for a number of precedent-setting software copyright infringement cases, including Apple v. Microsoft and the Napster case.

Mitch Kapor is one of EFF's founders as well as the founder of the Lotus Development Corporation. He is also founder and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). He keeps a website at http://www.kapor.com/.

Mark Lemley is a professor at Stanford Law School and is director of the Stanford Center for Law, Science and Technology. He is the author of several books and has testified before Congress and the FTC on patent, antitrust, and constitutional law matters. He is of counsel at Keker & Van Nest LLP.

Eben Moglen is Professor of Law at Columbia University, and pro bono General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court, holds a PhD in legal history, and is the author of many articles and essays about the free software and free culture movements.

Deirdre Mulligan is the Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley and an Acting Clinical Professor of Law. Through its work, the Clinic has advanced and protected the publicÕs interest in free expression, individual privacy, balanced intellectual property rules, and secure, reliable, open communication networks. Mulligan writes about the risks and opportunities technology presents to privacy, free expression, and access and use of information goods. Before joining Boalt, she worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, DC.

Michael Page is a Partner at Keker & Van Nest LLP, where he focuses on intellectual property litigation. He has represented numerous high-profile clients and recently won a California Attorney of the Year award.

Michael Traynor is a partner at Cooley Godward LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property, business, and First Amendment litigation. He is president of the American Law Institute and has argued before the US Supreme Court.

Jim Tyre is an attorney and EFF fellow who has represented free speech interests for more than 20 years. He is a founder of The Censorware Project, which provides public information about censorware products.

Richard R. Wiebe is a San Francisco lawyer with his own public interest practice focusing on free speech, intellectual property, and environmental issues. Rick works regularly with EFF on lawsuits protecting civil liberties in the digitial world, including defending Andrew Bunner's right to publish DVD decryption software on his website, defending the rights of online journalists to protect their confidential sources, and defending the copyright fair use rights of digital video recorder owners. He has also worked with EFF to expose the weaknesses of electronic voting technology and advocate for a voter-verified paper trail.