Faculty

Professor Danielle Citron is the Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.  She teaches Civil Procedure, Information Privacy Law, Internet Speech, and LAWR.  She was voted the "Best Teacher of the Year" by the University of Maryland law school students in 2005.

Professor Citron’s scholarship focuses on information privacy, civil rights, and administrative law.  She is currently working on a book entitled Hate 3.0: The Rise of Discriminatory Online Harassment and How to Stop It, forthcoming in Harvard University Press.  Her scholarship appears in the Boston University Law Review, California Law Review, Denver University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Southern California Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, and Washington University Law Review.  Her book chapter “Civil Rights in the Information Age” was featured in The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation edited by Martha Nussbaum & Saul Levmore (Harvard University Press 2010).  She has been interviewed in dozens of media broadcasts and articles, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Forbes, Barron’s, Glamour, Self, Marie Claire, Slate, Associated Press, NPR, ABC, CNN, and Fox News. 

Professor Citron was recently appointed to serve as an Adviser to American Law Institute’s Restatement Third, Information Privacy Principles Project.  She is also an Affiliate Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center on Internet and Society. She serves on the advisory boards of the Future of Privacy, Without My Consent, and Teach Privacy.  She has been a permanent blogger at Concurring Opinions since 2008.

In late October 2011, she testified at the House of Commons before the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Anti-Semitism Task Force on Internet Hate, of which she is a task force member.  During the past five years, she has given more than forty lectures and talks, including at the Department of Homeland Security, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Anti-Defamation League, and the International Network Against Cyber Hate, as well as at numerous universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, New York University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, Fordham, Washington University, William & Mary, University of Colorado, and Emory.  In December 2009, the Denver University Law Review devoted a conference to her work on cyber harassment entitled Cyber Civil Rights: New Challenges to Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Information Age.