Mary Anne Franks: podcast appearances and interviews

Mary Anne Franks is an American legal scholar, author, activist, and media commentator. She is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School where she holds the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professorship in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law. Her teaching and expertise encompass First Amendment law, Second Amendment law, criminal law, criminal procedure, family law, and law and technology. Franks also serves as the president and Legislative and Technology Policy Director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Prior to her current role, she was the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. She is the author of The Cult of the Constitution, which received several awards including a gold medal at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 2020 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Legal Studies and Excellence in Social Sciences. Her second book, Fearless Speech, was published in 2024. Her work combines legal scholarship with activism, particularly in the areas of cyber civil rights and free speech.