Justin Brookman Justin Brookman is the Director of Privacy and Technology Policy for Consumer Reports (CR). In this role, Brookman works to shape the digital marketplace in a way that empowers consumers and puts their data privacy and security needs first, including researching critical gaps in consumer privacy, data security, and technology law and policy. Prior to joining CR, Brookman was the Policy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation, where he published original research on consumer protection issues raised by emerging technologies and initiated and investigated enforcement actions against deceptive or unfair practices. Prior to FTC, Brookman served as the Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a digital rights nonprofit, where he coordinated CDT’s advocacy for stronger protections for personal information in the United States and Europe. Brookman also served as an Assistant Attorney General and, later, Chief of the Internet Bureau in the New York Attorney General’s office, where he brought consumer protection actions on a wide range of issues, including privacy, free speech, data security, and net neutrality. Brookman began his career as a litigation associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Brookman earned his J.D. from the New York University School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Virginia. Mark D. Cole Mark D. Cole is Professor for Media and Telecommunication Law at the University of Luxembourg, where he is also the Course Director for the Master in General European Law LL.M. program. In addition, he is a Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg. Professor Cole specializes in Media Law, covering both traditional mass media as well as the law of the new information technologies. He is one of the authors of the leading commentary on the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty as well as the Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media in Germany. Cole gained practical experience in media law at the DG Competition of the European Commission, a law office specializing in Intellectual Property Law and the legal department of a television broadcasting company. He holds a doctorate from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and holds both German State Examinations in Law.

Tori Ekstrand Victoria "Tori" Smith Ekstrand is an associate professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and is Co-Director of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. She was previously an associate professor in the Bowling Green State University Department of Journalism and Public Relations and an affiliate faculty member of BGSU’s American Cultural Studies department. Before joining academia, she was director of Corporate Communications at The Associated Press’ headquarters in New York City and a radio reporter and anchor for stations in upstate New York and Long Island. Professor Ekstrand is an expert on the “hot news doctrine,” a part of unfair competition law that protects the facts of news for a short period. More recently, her work has expanded to include critical theory approaches to studying media law. This includes research about the First Amendment’s role in access to online information for people with disabilities and research about “CRT-IP,” an emerging interdisciplinary framework that uses critical race theory (“CRT”) and intellectual property (“IP”) law to focus on the racial and colonial non-neutrality of the laws of copyright, patent, trademark, right of publicity, trade secret and unfair competition. She is also guiding student efforts to study changes in the campus expression environment since the 2016 presidential election and is lead author of a 2019 student-led study of campus expression at UNC titled, “Freedom of Speech on the UNC Chapel Hill Campus: What Students Understand about First Amendment Issues.” Michelle Ferrier Michelle Ferrier is the Dean of the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication at the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. She is the founder of TrollBusters.com, a just-in-time service that helps journalists fight online abuse and has advocated on behalf of journalists worldwide at the United Nations, SXSW, the Online News Association and the European Commission. She is a digital content architect with more than 30 years of experience in new media technologies, digital identity and media entrepreneurship. Dean Ferrier’s research interests include digital identity and reputation management and online communities. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in Texts and Technologies where she developed online communities, online learning and new media storytelling technologies; a master’s degree from the University of Memphis in journalism; and a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Amy Gajda Amy Gajda is the Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane Law School. Much of her scholarly work draws on insights from her many years as an award-winning journalist and focuses on the shifting boundaries of press freedoms, particularly in light of the digital disruption of traditional media and rising public anxieties about the erosion of privacy. Harvard University Press has published two of her books, and her third book, The Secret History of the Right to Privacy, is under contract with Viking and slated to be published in 2021. She has chaired the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Defamation and Privacy and its Section on Mass Communication twice, and led the Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The American Law Institute has appointed her to serve as an Adviser for its new Restatement on Defamation and Privacy, a multi-year project that will begin in 2020. David Greene David Greene, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has significant experience litigating First Amendment issues in state and federal trial and appellate courts and is one of the country's leading advocates for and commentators on freedom of expression in the arts. Greene was a founding member of the Internet Free Expression Alliance. Greene is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he teaches classes in First Amendment and media law and an instructor in the journalism department at San Francisco State University. He has written and lectured extensively on many areas of First Amendment Law, including as a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Censorship. Before joining EFF, Greene was for twelve years the Executive Director and Lead Staff Counsel for First Amendment Project, where he worked with EFF on numerous cases including Bunner v. DVDCCA.

Margaret Hu Margaret Hu is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her research interests include the intersection of immigration policy, national security, cybersurveillance, and civil rights. Previously, she served as senior policy advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and also served as special policy counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in Washington, D.C. Hu received her B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Kansas and her J.D. from Duke Law. She is a Truman Scholar and Foreign Language Area Studies Scholar. She clerked for Judge Rosemary Barkett on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and subsequently joined DOJ through the Attorney General's Honors Program. Thomas R. Julin Tom Julin is an attorney at the Gunster Law Firm. His practice centers on free speech and media law issues. Tom’s experience includes the defense of libel, slander and privacy invasion claims. He also has used the federal civil rights act to attack government regulations of speech, and sunshine, public records and Freedom of Information laws to extract information from government agencies. He has used the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws to protect publishers from damage claims of all types. In a career spanning three decades, Tom has represented newspaper, magazine and book publishers; television stations and networks; wire services and media industry associations. Tom is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and is a member of the Florida Bar.

Jeff Kosseff Jeff Kosseff is an assistant professor of cybersecurity law in the United States Naval Academy’s Cyber Science Department. His latest book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, a history of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, was published in Spring 2019 by Cornell University Press. He also is the author of Cybersecurity Law, a textbook and treatise published by Wiley in 2017, with a second edition released in November 2019. Professor Kosseff practiced cybersecurity, privacy, and First Amendment law at Covington & Burling, and clerked for Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a technology and political journalist for The Oregonian and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and recipient of the George Polk Award for national reporting. He received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and a B.A. and M.P.P. from the University of Michigan. Ronald Krotoszynski Ronald Krotoszynski is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Krotoszynski is also the author of several books including: Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective On The Right To Be Left Alone (Oxford University Press 2016) and Reclaiming The Petition Clause: Seditious Libel, “Offensive” Protest, And The Right To Petition The Government For A Redress Of Grievances (Yale University Press 2012). Krotoszynski's most recent book is The Disappearing First Amendment (Cambridge University Press 2019). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Krotoszynski served on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was an associate with Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C. Krotoszynski earned his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University, where he was articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and selected for Order of the Coif.

Frank LoMonte Frank LoMonte is the Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) in Washington, D.C. Before joining the SPLC, LoMonte practiced law with Sutherland Asbill and Brennan LLP in Atlanta and clerked for federal judges on the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Prior to embarking on his legal career, he was an award-winning investigative journalist and political columnist. He was the capitol correspondent for the Florida Times Union (Jacksonville), Washington correspondent for Morris News Service and the Atlanta bureau chief for Morris. He was the Otis Brumby Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgia Law School in spring-summer 2014 and has been a lecturer since 2015 in the University of Georgia Washington Program, teaching a course for undergraduates on “Law of Social Media.” He earned his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law and earned his B.A. from Georgia State University. Jennifer Mansfield Jennifer Mansfield is a partner in Holland & Knight's Jacksonville office. She has experience in numerous areas of commercial litigation, including media law, healthcare and ERISA litigation, and insurance defense. In her media law practice, Ms. Mansfield represents newspapers and television stations in defense of defamation claims, courtroom access, Florida's Sunshine Law, and for access to public records under the Freedom of Information Act and Florida's public records laws. Ms. Mansfield regularly speaks about the legal implications of social media and Internet privacy and has written articles on social media liability. Ms. Mansfield graduated from the University of Miami School of Law. She clerked for the Honorable Ralph W. Nimmons, Jr., United States District Judge (deceased) for the Middle District of Florida before joining Holland & Knight. Prior to embarking on her legal career, Ms. Mansfield served for three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay teaching business skills to the management of a farmers’ cooperative.

Jasmine McNealy Jasmine McNealy is an associate professor at the University of Florida, a fellow at the Stanford University Digital Civil Society Lab, and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Both an attorney and social scientist, she studies media, information, and emerging technology, with a view toward influencing law and policy. Her current research focuses on privacy, surveillance and data governance with an emphasis on marginalized communities. She earned a Ph.D. in mass communication and a J.D. at the University of Florida, and a B.S. in both journalism and Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin. Tracie Powell Tracie Powell is the founder of AllDigitocracy.org, which focuses on how media impacts communities of color. Her current position is Program Officer, Racial Equity in Journalism Fund at Borealis Philanthropy. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Democracy Fund and a 2016 JSK (Knight) Fellow at Stanford University where she researched how techniques used in online advertising to reach specific customers could be used by newsrooms to reach specific news consumers and to grow audience. She's written regularly for the Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter. She earned a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and clerked for the U.S. Department of Justice. She's reported for several daily newspapers including The Austin American-Statesman and The Augusta Chronicle.

Aaron Sharockman Aaron Sharockman is the executive director of PolitiFact, the largest fact-checking organization in the United States. Sharockman leads the growth and development of PolitiFact, manages its outreach and news partnerships, and oversees new initiatives and product development. Sharockman has been with PolitiFact since 2010 and served most recently as the editor of PunditFact, a website dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows. Previously, Sharockman was a government and politics reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. Aaron was a 2016-17 Reynolds Fellow at the University of Missouri and taught a class on political fact-checking at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Russel L. Weaver Russel L. Weaver is the Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He teaches the First Amendment, Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Remedies, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure. He has received the Brandeis School of Law's awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, and has been awarded the President's Award (University of Louisville) for Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity in the Field of Social Science, the President's Award for Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity in the Career Achievement Category, and the President's Award for Distinguished Service. Professor Weaver is a prolific author who has written dozens of books and articles over the last 38 years. Professor Weaver is particularly noted for his work in the constitutional law area, especially his writings on free speech. In addition to authoring "From Gutenberg to the Internet: Free Speech, Advancing Technology and the Implications for Democracy," and "The Right to Speak Ill," he served as a consultant to the constitutional drafting commissions of Belarus and Kyrghyzstan and as a commentator on the Russian Constitution. He graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law and earned his B.A. from the University of Missouri