Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is an American attorney and educator. She is the Director of Civil Liberties for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She is best known for her work with intellectual property law, free speech, privacy law, and other things relating to computer security, and has represented several high-profile hackers.

Granick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Both of her parents were local educators. She attended Glen Ridge High School and then New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. After that, she moved to San Francisco to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993.

Granick initially worked in criminal defense, first at the state public defender's office, then as a trial attorney at the law firm Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996 to 2001 she worked in private practice, specializing in defending cases involving computer crime, and then started working at Stanford University in 2001, giving classes on cyber law. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field.

Granick was the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she was a lecturer in law. She founded and directed the Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure.

Granick has been a speaker at conferences such as Def Con and ShmooCon, and has also spoken at the National Security Agency as well as to other law enforcement officials. She was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Black Hat USA conference.

She was one of the primary crafters of a 2006 exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier.

Granick was the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2007 to 2010. She was subsequently an attorney at Washington DC-based law firm Zwillinger Genetski from 2010 to 2012, and General Counsel of Worldstar, LLC for a brief period in early 2012.

Internet activist Aaron Swartz sought Granick's counsel after his arrest for downloading articles from JSTOR, for which he faced 35 years imprisonment. Granick both defended Swartz and challenged the scope of the law under which he was prosecuted. Swartz committed suicide in January 2013, two months before his trial.

• Chapter One: Legal and Ethical Issues, "Security Power Tools", 2006.
• "Faking It: Calculating Loss in Computer Crime Cases", A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Cybersecurity, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2006).
• "The Price of Restricting Vulnerability Publications", SSRN
• Circuit Court, a bi-weekly column for Wired News
• "PAS or Fail: The Use and Abuse of the Preliminary Alcohol Screening Test", The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, April 1996.
• "Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers: When Free Speech Collides With Trademark Law", Wired, October 1997

• Represented Christopher Soghoian, creator of a fake boarding pass generator, in 2006
• Represented Michael Lynn in 2005 as part of the Cisco/ISS incident at the Black Hat technology conference
• Represented Kevin Poulsen
• Represented Jerome Heckenkamp
• Represented Luke Smith and Nelson Pavlosky in Online Policy Group v. Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions), a copyright misuse case related to electronic voting
• Represented calculator hobbyists against threats from Texas Instruments
• Wrote amicus briefs regarding application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in American Airlines v. Farechase, United States v. Lowson, United States v. Lori Drew
• Represented HBGary

• Olson, Parmy (28 March 2011). "HBGary Attorney Was Once The Lawyer Hackers Call". Forbes. Retrieved 19 August 2012.