Mary Anne Franks

Mary Anne Frank’s holds the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law and is the author of the award-winning book, The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (2019). A constitutional scholar with expertise in the First and Second Amendments, Mary is also the president and legislative & tech policy director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating online abuse and discrimination. She frequently serves as a policy adviser to legislators, tech industry leaders, and advocacy organizations on issues relating to gun violence, privacy, sexual exploitation, and threats. Mary holds a JD from Harvard Law School as well as a doctorate and a master’s degree from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law and at Harvard University as a lecturer in social studies and philosophy.