Mary Anne Franks

Dr. Mary Anne Franks (Bluesky – LinkedIn – X) is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington Law School. She is also the President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), the leading U.S.-based nonprofit organization focused on image-based sexual abuse. Her areas of expertise include First Amendment law, Second Amendment law, law and technology, criminal law and procedure, and family law. She is the author of Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (Bold Type Books, 2024) and The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (Stanford Press, 2019). She is an Affiliate Fellow with the Yale Law School Information Society Project, an AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow, and an American Bar Foundation Fellow. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and the District of Columbia.