Danielle Citron

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).

Biography

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.

Selected works

Books

• Danielle Keats Citron (2014). Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36829-3. 

Book chapters

• Danielle Keats Citron (2011). Martha Nussbaum & Saul Levmore, ed. Civil Rights in the Information Age, in The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674064317. 

Articles

• Spying Inc., 72 Washington & Lee Law Review (forthcoming 2015).
• The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions, 89 Washington Law Review 1 (2014) (with Frank Pasquale).
• Criminalizing Revenge Porn, 49 Wake Forest Law Review 345 (2014) (with Mary Anne Franks).
• The Right to Quantitative Privacy, 98 Minnesota Law Review 62 (2013) (with David Gray).
• A Shattered Looking Glass: The Pitfalls and Potential of the Mosaic Theory of Fourth Amendment Privacy, 14 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 381 (2013) (with David Gray).
• Fighting Cybercrime After United States v. Jones, 103 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 745 (2013) (with David Gray and Liz Clark Rinehart).
• Addressing the Harm of Total Surveillance: A Reply to Professor Neil Richards, 126 Harvard Law Review Forum 262 (2013) (with David Gray).
• Mainstreaming Privacy Torts, 98 California Law Review 1805 (2011).
• Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for the Information Age, 91 Boston University Law Review 1435 (2011) (with Helen Norton).
• Network Accountability for the Domestic Intelligence Apparatus, 62 Hastings Law Journal 1441 (2011) (with Frank Pasquale).
• Government Speech 2.0, 88 Denver University Law Review 899 (2010) (with Helen Norton).
• Cyber Civil Rights: Looking Forward, 87 Denver University Law Review Online 1 (2010).
• Book Review, Visionary Pragmatism and the Value of Privacy in the Twenty-First Century, 108 Michigan Law Review 1107 (2010) (reviewing Daniel J. Solove (2008). Understanding Privacy. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674035072. ) (with Leslie Meltzer Henry).
• Fulfilling Government 2.0's Promise with Robust Privacy Protection, 78 George Washington Law Review 822 (2010).
• Law's Expressive Value in Combating Cyber Gender Harassment, 108 Michigan Law Review 373 (2009).
• Cyber Civil Rights, 89 Boston University Law Review 61 (2009).
• Technological Due Process, 85 Washington University Law Review 1249 (2008).
• Open Code Governance, 16 University of Chicago Legal Forum 355 (2008).
• Reservoirs of Danger: The Evolution of Public and Private Law at the Dawn of the Information Age, 80 Southern California Law Review 241 (2007).
• Minimum Contacts in a Borderless World: Voice over Internet Protocol and the Coming Implosion of Personal Jurisdiction Theory, 39 University of California Davis Law Review 101 (2006).

• Quarmby, Katherine. "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace by Danielle Keats Citron review – the internet is a brutal place". The Guardian - Books. Sept 26, 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-11. 
• Chemaly, Soraya (2014-09-02). ""Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" author: "Everyone is at risk, from powerful celebrities to ordinary people"". Salon.com. Retrieved 2015-04-11. 
• Hill, Kashmir (2014-08-21). "How To Keep Internet Trolls And Harassers From Winning". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-04-19. 
• Nussbaum, Martha C (2014-11-05). "Haterz Gonna Hate?". The Nation. Retrieved 2015-04-11.