Mary Anne Franks — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington University Law School.
Is President and Legislative and Technology Policy Director of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative.
Authored 'The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech' (2020), which won a gold medal at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 2020 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Legal Studies and Excellence in Social Sciences.
Authored 'Fearless Speech', published in 2024.
Graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans in 1999 with a major in Philosophy and English Literature and minor in Classics.
Earned her DPhil in modern languages and literature from the University of Oxford in 2004 as a Rhodes Scholar.
Graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007.

Biography

Mary Anne Franks is an American legal scholar, author, activist, and media commentator. She holds the position of Eugene L. and Barbara A.

Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington University Law School. Her areas of expertise and teaching include First Amendment law, Second Amendment law, criminal law, criminal procedure, family law, and law and technology.