Danielle Citron | |
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Citron at WikiConference USA in 2015 | |
Awards | MacArthur Fellow (2019) Fastcase 50 Award Honoree (2022) Top 50 World Thinkers (Prospect Magazine UK, 2015) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Duke University (BA) Fordham University (JD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Virginia School of Law |
Main interests | Privacy, Civil Rights, Gender and the Law |
Notable works | "'Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" (2014) "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (2022) |
Danielle Keats Citron is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law.[1] Citron is the author of "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (forthcoming October 2022) and "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" (2014).[2][3] She also serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, an organization that provides assistance and legislative support to victims of image-based sexual abuse and other forms of online abuse.[4] Prior to joining UVA Law, Citron was an Austin B. Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Law at Boston University Law School, and was also the Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.[5][6]