Marvin Ammori

Marvin Ammori is a lawyer, civil liberties advocate, and scholar best known for his work on network neutrality and Internet freedom issues. He currently serves as General Counsel of Protocol Labs.[1]

Marvin Ammori
Born
Southfield, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (B.A.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Known forLegal and technology expert
Board member ofFight for the Future
Demand Progress
Engine
Blockchain Association
Websitehttps://ammori.org/

Education and career

Ammori attended Brother Rice High School[2] and went on to study literature at the University of Michigan. He earned his juris doctorate 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] He was active in the debate over the controversial copyright bills SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act, arguing that the bills would violate the First Amendment.[6]

From 2008 to 2011, Ammori taught law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln-College of Law,[7] where he helped launch the law school's program in space and telecommunications law.

In 2014 and 2015, he led the effort to get the Federal Communications Commission to adopt strong network neutrality rules on the basis of its Title II authority. Tim Wu, who coined the phrase network neutrality, said Ammori "deserved enormous credit for leading the march to Title II."[8] Ammori collaborated with the John Oliver show "Las Week Tonight" for its network neutrality segment and worked with White House staff leading to President Obama's network neutrality plan.[9][10] For this work, he was named to the Politico 50 and a Washington Tech Titan in 2015.[11][12]

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.[13]

From 2016 to 2018, Ammori served as general counsel of Virgin Hyperloop One, where he helped the company raise over $200 million.[14]

In 2018, Ammori joined Protocol Labs.[15]

Ammori was an advisor on season six for HBO’s Emmy award-winning show "Silicon Valley".[16] He is the author "On Internet Freedom."[17]

Influence

In 2013, Ammori was named a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.[18] In 2015, he was named a Senior Fellow to the Democracy Fund.[19]

He serves on the boards of public interest advocacy groups Demand Progress, Fight for the Future,[20] and Engine,[21] and is an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.[22]

References
  1. https://ammori.org/about/
  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. Timm, Trevor. "How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  7. "That's Ammori". UNL News Blog. 2010-05-17.
  8. Tim Wu [@superwuster] (4 February 2015). "I should say that Marvin @Ammori deserves enormous credit for leading the march to Title II" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 4 February 2015 – via Twitter.
  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. "2015 Politico 50", Politico, Washington, D.C., 10 September 2015
  12. Gaynor, Michael (4 May 2015), "Washington's 100 Top Tech Leaders", Washingtonian, Washington, D.C.
  13. United States Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission, 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.").
  14. "DATA PRIVACY AND PORTABILITY IN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY - SPEAKER SERIES".
  15. Roberts, Jeff John (2019-02-23). "Marvin Ammori's Next Act: A Net Neutrality Vet on Blockchain—and Why the Internet Is Still Great".
  16. Beaujon, Andrew (2019-10-24). "Meet the DC Lawyer Who Consulted on the New Season of HBO's "Silicon Valley"". The Washingtonian.
  17. "On Internet Freedom: Marvin Ammori: Amazon.com Kindle Store". Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  18. "Marvin Ammori: 2013 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow". 2012-09-21.
  19. Goldman, Joe (2015-04-15). "Welcoming our New Senior Fellows". Democracy Fund.
  20. "Fight for the Future - Board".
  21. "Engine - Board of Directors".
  22. "Center for Internet and Society People". Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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