Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is an American attorney and the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to joining EFF in 2007, she served as the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she continues to be a lecturer in law. She also founded and directed the Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure. She is best known for her work with Intellectual Property law, free speech, privacy, and other things relating to computer security, and has represented several high profile hackers. She also writes a regular column for "Wired News".

Granick was born in 1969 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with both of her parents being local educators. She attended Glen Ridge High School, and then New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. After that, she moved to San Francisco to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993. She is married to Brad Stone, technology journalist for "The New York Times".

Career

She initially worked in criminal defense, first at the State Public Defender's Office, then as a trial attorney at Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996-2001 she worked in private practice, specializing in defending cases involving computer crime, and then started working at Stanford in 2001, giving classes on Cyber law. She is also on the Board of Directors at the Honeynet Project, a computer security research group. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field.

Granick has been a speaker at conferences such as Def Con and ShmooCon, and has also spoken at the National Security Agency as well as to other law enforcement officials.

She was also responsible for the creation of a new (in 2006) exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier. [cite news |url=http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72241-0.html |title=Cell Phones Freed! Poor Suffer? |accessdate=2007-01-19 |last=Granick |first=Jennifer |date=2006-12-06 |work=Wired News]

Writing

* "Chapter One, Legal and Ethical Issues," Security Power Tools, (2006) [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009632/#rr]
* "Faking It: Calculating Loss in Computer Crime Cases", published in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Cybersecurity, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2006) [http://www.is-journal.org/V02I02/2ISJLP207-Granick.pdf]
* "The Price of Restricting Vulnerability Publications", International Journal of Communications Law & Policy, Vol. 9, Special Issue on Cybercrime, Spring 2005 [http://www.ijclp.org/Cy_2004/ijclp_webdoc_10_Cy_2004.htm] Also available from SSRN [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=874846]
* "Circuit Court", a bi-weekly column for "Wired News"
* "PAS or Fail: The Use and Abuse of the Preliminary Alcohol Screening Test", "The Champion", April 1996 ("The Champion" is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Magazine. )
* "Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers: When Free Speech Collides With Trademark Law", "Wired", October 1997

Selected cases and clients

* Represented Christopher Soghoian, creator of a fake boarding pass generator in 2006
* Represented Michael Lynn in 2005 as part of the Cisco/ISS incident at the Black Hat technology conference
* Represented Kevin Poulsen
* Represented Jerome Heckencamp
* Represented Luke Smith and Nelson Pavlosky in Online Policy Group v. Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions), a copyright misuse case related to electronic voting

See also

* FedEx furniture

Notes

References

* [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/profile/jennifer-granick Center for Internet and Society] - Jennifer Granick bio and professional blog
* [http://www.granick.com/blog Granick's personal blog, "The Shout"]
* [http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=02/05/08/1331249&mode=thread GrepLaw Cyberlawyer profile] from Harvard University
* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/lecturers/granick/ Stanford profile]

External links

* [http://www.wired.com/storylist/1033-0-0.html Stories by Jennifer Granick at "Wired News"]