Susan Crawford (Professor)

Susan P. Crawford (born 1963) is a prominent media and Internet legal scholar and a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Previously, she was a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and has been a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

Prior to entering the legal academy, Crawford was a partner at the Washington, DC law firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. She is currently member of the Board of Directors for ICANN.

Crawford has been interviewed in "On the Media", a radio show produced by WNYC, and maintains a blog. She is the founder of OneWebDay and a champion of network neutrality.

Early life

Crawford was born in 1963 and grew up in Santa Monica, where she attended Santa Monica High School, and played violin in the "Samohi" orchestra. According to her own website, she spent most of her time "hanging out in the band room" there, though she still became associated during this period with the intelligentsia known around campus as The Olive Starlight Orchestra (a social group that had nothing to do with music, and later emerged as a modern-day Bloomsbury Group). Via this connection, she became acquainted with figures such as Sandra Tsing Loh, entrepreneur/mathematician Keith Goldfarb (co-founder of Rhythm and Hues Studios), computer-graphics scholar Greg Turk of Georgia Tech University, neurobiologist and science-writer David Linden, writer and poet Jan Steckel, producer/CGI researcher Eric Enderton, and scanning expert David Coons, who won an Academy Award for his computer-graphics work in feature films.

Educational Career and Activism

Crawford holds a B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. In the Fall of 2007, Crawford was a visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School; in Spring of 2008 she visited at Yale Law School. [cite web|url=http://scrawford.net/blog/about/|title=Bio|publisher=scrawford.net|accessdate=2008-01-12] . She is now faculty at the University of Michigan Law School.

In 2007 Crawford was quoted in the New York Times about Wikipedia and transparency in editing the online encyclopedia:

"Wikipedia is a reliable first stop for getting information about a huge variety of things, and it shouldn’t be manipulated as a public relations arm of major companies." [cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.html|title=New York Times:Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits|accessdate= 2008-05-23|first=KATIE|last=HAFNER|date=2007-08-19]

External links

* [http://scrawford.net/blog/ Professor Crawford's blog]
* [http://www.onewebday.org One Web Day]
* [http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=373 Professor Crawford's Official Web Page at University of Michigan]

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