Danielle Citron
American law professor

Danielle Citron

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American law professor
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Danielle Keats Citron
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Danielle Keats Citron is the Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. She is a known expert on cyber harassment. Her work focuses on information privacy law, cyber law, administrative law, and civil rights. Citron is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014).

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Citron graduated from Duke University, and the Fordham University School of Law. She is an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society and at the Yale Information Society Project. She is also an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles and serves on the advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Future of Privacy Forum, and Without My Consent. In 2015, she was named as one of the Daily Record (Maryland)'s "Top 50 Influential Marylanders" and one of Prospect Magazine's "Top 50 Global Thinkers."

She is an expert on online harassment. She has written for the New York Times, Slate Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Scientist, TIME, and Al Jazeera. She has been a guest on The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and Slate Magazine's The Gist podcast. She is also a Forbes contributor and a member of Concurring Opinions. She has authored over 20 law review articles. Her book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, was named among "The 20 Best Moments for Women in 2014" by Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan Magazine.

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