Marvin Ammori is a legal scholar and advocate expert in cyberlaw, the First Amendment and telecommunications policy.

Ammori was the first policy lawyer for Free Press and directed the legal team at Free Press -- the largest nonprofit organization devoted to media and technology policy in the U.S. While at Free Press, he argued for open Internet policies, diverse media ownership, and greater access to communications technologies. As the lead architect of the Free Press-Comcast case before the Federal Communications Commission, he helped secure a major Network Neutrality victory when the FCC ordered Comcast to stop blocking online content delivered through peer-to-peer technologies like BitTorrent.

Ammori is a founding faculty member of University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Space & Telecom Law LLM program, where he teaches cyberlaw, cyber-warfare law, and domestic and international telecom law. His research focuses on how communications policies serve the values underlying freedom of speech and press and affect the distribution of political and economic power. His commentary has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

Ammori attended Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan, and held fellowships at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and Georgetown Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation. He practiced at Kirkland & Ellis LLP following law school. Ammori is currently a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He splits his time between Washington, D.C. and Lincoln, Nebraska.

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