Marvin Ammori
University of Nebraska Law School
Marvin Ammori is an internationally recognized lawyer whose expertise is in Internet and media law, freedom of speech, and cybersecurity law. He has acted as counsel on some of the most important cases involving the Internet, media, and the 21st Century First Amendment, including as lead lawyer before the FCC on the Free Press-Comcast case (also known as the Comcast-BitTorrent case), regarding network neutrality.
Marvin has authored a major report on the future of online television, an issue that has become central to the Comcast-NBC merger review, and has litigated media ownership and children's digital TV rules. He has argued cases before the D.C. Circuit (including the Comcast case) and the 7th Circuit, has filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, has testified before government bodies in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, has advised government officials on four continents, and has delivered addresses at conferences in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Marvin is a tenure-track professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, where he helps lead a JD/LLM program in Space & Telecom law. (Nearby, US Strategic Command has a Space Command and has jurisdiction over U.S. Cyber Command, addressing space and telecom issues). He teaches cyberlaw (including cyberwarfare) and domestic and international telecom law, from common carriage and rate regulation to net neutrality and wireless auctions.
His scholarship, published in journals at Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and Catholic, focuses on freedom of speech and new technologies. He has published popular articles as well, including in the New York Times and Boston Review, and writes at one of the leading blogs for legal commentary, Balkinization, as well as the Huffington Post. He has been quoted as an expert in the nation's leading newspapers and has appeared on news programs including Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Before joining Nebraska, he represented consumer groups and churches on media reform and open Internet issues, and served as Free Press's first lawyer in Washington, DC. Before that, he studied at Harvard Law School, and had fellowships at Yale and Georgetown law schools. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and recently spent the summer of 2010 in Palo Alto, as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society. He serves as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and, at Nebraska, is a faculty advisor for the American Constitution Society.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2011, January 18, 2011
Biography last updated December 20, 2010