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A. Michael Froomkin

A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, where he has taught since 1992. He is one of the founding figures of U.S. cyberlaw scholarship, with a body of work spanning cryptography policy, Internet governance, administrative law, privacy, identity, and, since the early 2010s, the law of robotics and artificial intelligence.

He co-founded the We Robot conference in 2012 with Ian Kerr (Ottawa) and Ryan Calo (Washington), the first sustained academic venue dedicated to legal and policy issues raised by robotics, and continues to co-edit the Robot Law book series (Edward Elgar), with Volume II published in 2025 with Ryan Calo and Kristen Thomasen.

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Education (3)

  • Yale Law School J.D.? to 1987
  • University of Cambridge M.Phil., History (History of International Relations)? to 1984
  • Yale College B.A., summa cum laude, Economics and History? to 1982

Publications (27)

Sorted by citation count. Source: Google Scholar. Total across listed papers: 5,361 citations.

  1. 932The death of privacy · Stanford Law Review · 1999
  2. 639Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route around the APA and the Constitution · Duke Law Journal · 2000
  3. 536Habermas@discourse.net: Toward a critical theory of cyberspace · Harvard Law Review · 2002
  4. 474Metaphor is the key: cryptography, the clipper chip, and the constitution · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1994
  5. 349Flood control on the information ocean: Living with anonymity, digital cash, and distributed databases · Journal of Law and Commerce · 1995
  6. 343The essential role of trusted third parties in electronic commerce · Oregon Law Review · 1996
  7. 278When AIs outperform doctors: confronting the challenges of a tort-induced over-reliance on machine learning · Arizona Law Review · 2019
  8. 229ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy — Causes and (Partial) Cures · Brooklyn Law Review · 2001
  9. 181Speculative microeconomics for tomorrow's economy · Internet Publishing and Beyond (MIT Press) · 2000
  10. 175Reinventing the government corporation · University of Illinois Law Review · 1995
  11. 170The Internet as a source of regulatory arbitrage · Borders in Cyberspace (MIT Press) · 1997
  12. 167The Imperial Presidency's New Vestments · Northwestern University Law Review · 1993
  13. 138Regulating mass surveillance as privacy pollution: Learning from environmental impact statements · University of Illinois Law Review · 2015
  14. 119Virtual worlds, real rules · New York Law School Law Review · 2004
  15. 115Ethical, legal and social issues for personal health records and applications · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · 2010
  16. 104Anonymity and its enmities · Journal of Online Law · 1995
  17. 103Legal issues in anonymity and pseudonymity · The Information Society · 1999
  18. 84In defense of administrative agency autonomy · Yale Law Journal · 1986
  19. 80Self-defense against robots and drones · Connecticut Law Review · 2015
  20. 76Of Governments and Governance · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 1999
  21. 69Big data: destroyer of informed consent · Yale Journal of Law & Technology · 2019
  22. 2023When AIs Say Yes and I Say No: On the Tension Between AI and the First Amendment · 101 Washington University Law Review 495 · 2023
  23. 2020Privacy as Safety (with Zak Colangelo) · 95 Washington Law Review 141 · 2020
  24. 2016Robot Law (co-edited with Ryan Calo and Ian Kerr) · Edward Elgar Publishing · 2016
  25. 2015Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones (with Zak Colangelo) · 48 Connecticut Law Review 1 · 2015
  26. 2003ICANN & Anti-Trust (with Mark A. Lemley) · 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 1 · 2003
  27. 1995The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution · 143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 709 · 1995

Sources (17)

  1. https://www.law.miami.edu/faculty/a-michael-froomkin
  2. https://www.icannwatch.org/
  3. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=48022
  4. https://law.tm/
  5. https://law.tm/Froomkin-CV.pdf
  6. https://law.tm/bio/
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froomkin
  8. https://people.miami.edu/profile/41a14665087bc47ba4b04eb351d70051
  9. https://www.law.miami.edu/news/2020/september/faculty-senate-honors-michael-froomkin-visionary-intersection-technology-and-law
  10. https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/08/robot-law-volume-ii-froomkin.html
  11. https://epic.org/people/a-michael-froomkin/
  12. https://robots.law.miami.edu/
  13. https://jotwell.com/
  14. https://www.discourse.net/
  15. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=44289
  16. https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2020/02/faculty-senate-names-professor-a.-michael-froomkin-as-distinguished-faculty-scholar.html
  17. https://www.ge.com/news/reports/robot-law-preventing-serious-and-subtle-threats-an-interview-with-a-michael-froomkin

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