| A. Michael Froomkin | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Workplaces: | University of Miami School of Law |
| Occupation: | Professor, legal scholar |
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| Education: | Yale University (BA) University of Cambridge (MPhil) Yale University (JD) |
A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.[1] His work on technology law since the mid-1990s spans Internet governance and regulation, privacy, encryption, AI and medicine, drones, and robotics. In 2012, he co-founded the annual We Robot conference[2] with Ian Kerr and Ryan Calo in order to think ahead about the challenges to law and policy that widespread use of robots will bring. He blogs at Discourse.net[3]
Froomkin is founder and editor of the online law review Jotwell, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), created as a space where legal academics can go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new scholarship relevant to the law. He is a member of the advisory boards of several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation[4] and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[5]
Froomkin attended Sidwell Friends School[6] [7] before earning his B.A. in 1982 from Yale University in Economics and History, Latin: [[summa cum laude]], Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction in History.[1] He has an M.Phil in History of International Relations from the University of Cambridge (1984), which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship.[1] Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987, where he served as Articles Editor of both The Yale Law Journal and The Yale Journal of International Law.[1] He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit,[1] and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois,[1] and went on to practice international arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before entering teaching at the University of Miami School of Law in 1992.[1]
Froomkin is a non-resident Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (Chatham House), and a member of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science.[8] In 2020 the University of Miami awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.[9]
Froomkin's brother is the American journalist Dan Froomkin. He is married to University of Miami law professor Caroline Bradley.