Marvin Ammori

Marvin Ammori is an American lawyer, civil liberties advocate, and scholar best known for his work on network neutrality and Internet freedom issues. He currently serves as Chief Legal Officer of Uniswap.[1]

Marvin Ammori
Pictured in 2019
Born
Southfield, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (BA)
Harvard Law School (JD)
Known forLegal and technology expert

Career

Ammori attended Brother Rice High School and studied literature at the University of Michigan.[2] He earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.,[3] where he studied under communications scholar Yochai Benkler.[4]

In 2007, while serving as the general counsel for nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, Ammori wrote the original Comcast complaint to the FCC in the Comcast-BitTorrent case, the first network neutrality enforcement action in the United States.[5]

From 2008 to 2011, Ammori taught law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln-College of Law,[6] where he helped launch the law school's program in space and telecommunications law.

In 2013, Ammori was named a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.[7] In 2015, he was named a Senior Fellow to the Democracy Fund.[8]

In 2014 and 2015, he worked on a effort to urge the Federal Communications Commission to adopt strong network neutrality rules on the basis of its Title II authority. Ammori collaborated with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for a network neutrality segment and worked with White House staff leading to President Obama's network neutrality plan.[9][10]

On June 14, 2016, the D.C. Circuit Court, which had in 2014 rejected the FCC's attempts to impose network neutrality rules under its 706 authority, upheld the Title II network neutrality rules, writing in the majority opinion that the FCC had overcome the problems of the previous rules "by reclassifying broadband service—and the interconnection arrangements necessary to provide it—as a telecommunications service" under Title II, thereby vindicating Ammori's legal approach.[11]

From 2016 to 2018, Ammori served as general counsel of Virgin Hyperloop One.[12]

In 2018, Ammori joined Protocol Labs.[13]

Ammori was an advisor on season six for HBO’s Emmy award-winning show Silicon Valley.[14] He is the author "On Internet Freedom."[15]

References
  1. "Marvin Ammori".
  2. Rzucidlo, Jason. "U-M alum Marvin Ammori discusses net neutrality, Hyperloop One".
  3. Citron, Danielle. "Concurring Opinions >> Introducing Guest Blogger Marvin Ammori". Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  4. Ammori, Marvin (Winter 2005). "Another Worthy Tradition: How the Free Speech Curriculum Ignores Electronic Media and Distorts Free Speech Doctrine". Missouri Law Review. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  5. Fernandez, Bob. "Big victory for a geek lawyer Young attorney takes on Comcast and wins". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  6. "That's Ammori". UNL News Blog. 2010-05-17.
  7. "Marvin Ammori: 2013 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow". YouTube. 2012-09-21.
  8. Goldman, Joe (2015-04-15). "Welcoming our New Senior Fellows". Democracy Fund.
  9. Nagesh, Gautham (5 February 2015), "How HBO's John Oliver Helped Move The Needle on Net Neutrality", The Wall Street Journal, Washington, D.C.
  10. Nagesh, Gautham; Mullins, Brody (4 February 2015), "Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief", The Wall Street Journal, Washington, D.C.
  11. United States Telecom Association v. FCC (2016), 15-1063 (D.C. Circuit Court June 14, 2016) ("The problem in Verizon was not that the Commission had misclassified the service between carriers and edge providers but that the Commission had failed to classify broadband service as a Title II service at all. The Commission overcame this problem in the Order by reclassifying broadband service—and the interconnection arrangements necessary to provide it—as a telecommunications service.").
  12. "DATA PRIVACY AND PORTABILITY IN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY - SPEAKER SERIES". Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  13. Roberts, Jeff John (2019-02-23). "Marvin Ammori's Next Act: A Net Neutrality Vet on Blockchain—and Why the Internet Is Still Great".
  14. Beaujon, Andrew (2019-10-24). "Meet the DC Lawyer Who Consulted on the New Season of HBO's "Silicon Valley"". The Washingtonian.
  15. On Internet Freedom: Marvin Ammori: Amazon.com Kindle Store. Elkat Books. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
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