Michael Froomkin

{{Short description|American legal scholar}}

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| name = A. Michael Froomkin

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| nationality = American

| workplaces = University of Miami School of Law

| occupation = Professor, legal scholar

| website = {{Official URL}}
{{URL|discourse.net}}

| education = Yale University (BA)
University of Cambridge (MPhil)
Yale University (JD)

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A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.{{cite web |title=A. Michael Froomkin |url=https://people.miami.edu/profile/mfroomkin@miami.edu |publisher=University of Miami |language=en |access-date=13 February 2024 }} 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{{cite web |title=We Robot |url=https://robots.law.miami.edu |website=We Robot |language=en |access-date=13 February 2024 }} 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{{cite web |title=Discourse.net |url=https://discourse.net |publisher=A. Michael Froomkin |language=en |access-date=13 February 2024 }}

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{{cite web |title=Advisory Board |url=https://www.eff.org/uk/about/advisoryboard |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation |language=en}} and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.{{cite web |title=Advisory Board |url=https://epic.org/about/advisory-board/ |publisher=Electronic Privacy Information Center |language=en |access-date=13 February 2024 }}

Education and career

Froomkin attended Sidwell Friends School{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/04/24/7-from-area-are-presidential-scholars/869301e5-fcc9-42b6-b91f-f616f283af04/ |title=7 From Area Are Presidential Scholars |first=Lawrence |last=Feinberg |work=The Washington Post |date=April 23, 1978 |access-date=February 14, 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1996/07/14/prof-posts-virtual-office/ |title=Prof Posts Virtual Office |first= |last= |work=Sun Sentinel |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214094258/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1996/07/14/prof-posts-virtual-office/ |date=July 14, 1996 |archive-date=February 14, 2024 |access-date=February 14, 2024 }} before earning his B.A. in 1982 from Yale University in Economics and History, {{lang|la|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 (1984), 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 (Chatham House), and a member of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science.{{cite web |title=Center for Computational Science |url=https://idsc.miami.edu/members/ |publisher=University of Miami |language=en |access-date=13 February 2024 }} In 2020 the University of Miami awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.{{cite web |title=Faculty Senate Names Professor A. Michael Froomkin as Distinguished Faculty Scholar |url=https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2020/02/faculty-senate-names-professor-a.-michael-froomkin-as-distinguished-faculty-scholar.html |publisher=University of Miami |language=en |date=February 2020 |access-date=13 February 2024 }}

Personal life

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

Publications

  • {{cite journal |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol143/iss3/3/ |title=The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=143 |issue=3 |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review |page=709 |date=1995 |ssrn=2719011 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jlac15&div=22&id=&page= |title=Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=15 |journal=University of Pittsburgh Journal of Law and Commerce |page=395 |date=1996 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf |title=Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=50 |journal=Duke Law Journal |page=17 |date=2000 |ssrn=252523 |doi=10.2307/1373113 |issn=0012-7086 |jstor=1373113 |lccn=sf82007022 |oclc=1567016 |hdl=10535/3464 |hdl-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1312&context=fac_articles |title=Habermas@discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=116 |journal=Harvard Law Review |page=749 |date=January 16, 2003 |ssrn=363840 |jstor=1342583 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1271&context=fac_articles |title=Virtual Worlds, Real Rules |author2=Michael Froomkin |author2-mask=3 |journal=New York Law School Law Review |volume=49 |date=2004 |author1=Caroline Bradley |ssrn=1127722 }} University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-22, TPRC 2003
  • {{cite journal |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=fac_articles |title=Regulating Mass Surveillance as Privacy Pollution: Learning from Environmental Impact Statements |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |date=2015 |journal=University of Illinois Law Review |page=1713 |ssrn=2400736 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/314/ |title=Lessons Learned Too Well: Anonymity in a Time of Surveillance |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=59 |journal=Ariz. L. Rev. |page=95 |date=2017 |ssrn=1930017 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://yjolt.org/sites/default/files/21_yale_j.l._tech._special_issue_27.pdf |title=Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=18 |ssrn=3405482 |journal=Yale J. Health Pol. L. & Ethics |page=27 |date=2019 }}, jointly published in 21 Yale J.L. & Tech. 27 (special joint issue).
  • {{cite journal |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1678&context=fac_articles |title=When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of A Tort-Induced Over-Reliance On Machine Learning |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |volume=61 |journal=Ariz. L. Rev. |page=33 |date=2019 |author2=Ian Kerr |author3=Joelle Pineau |ssrn=3114347 }}
  • {{cite journal |url= |title=Saving Democracy from the Senate |author1=Michael Froomkin |author1-mask=3 |date=2024 |journal=Utah Law Review |author2=David B. Froomkin }} (forthcoming)

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