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Clay Calvert is a nonresident senior fellow in technology policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a professor of law emeritus at the Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the College of Journalism and Communications, both at the University of Florida.

Considered one of the foremost experts on First Amendment law, Dr. Calvert is often a source in writings about the First Amendment and freedom of expression.

Dr. Calvert has authored or coauthored more than 150 law journal articles on topics related to freedom of expression. He has published articles in journals affiliated with law schools including Harvard University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Virginia; the University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; Duke University; and Georgetown University. In the popular press, his commentaries have appeared in CNN.com, Fortune, the Hill, Time, Newsweek, the New Republic, Orlando Sentinel, the Conversation, and Tampa Bay Times, among others.

He is the lead author of a market-leading undergraduate media law textbook Mass Media Law, 22nd ed. (McGraw Hill, 2023) and the author of Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (Westview Press, 2000).

Dr. Calvert received a law degree from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and a PhD and BA in communication from Stanford University. He is a member of both the State Bar of California and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Experience

• University of Florida: Professor Emeritus, Levin College of Law, 2023–present; Brechner Eminent Scholar Emeritus, College of Journalism and Communications, 2023–present; Professor of Law, Levin College of Law, 2020–22; Director, Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, College of Journalism and Communications, 2010–22; Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, College of Journalism and Communications, 2009–22
• Pennsylvania State University: John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies, 2007–09; University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, 2008–09; Codirector, Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, 2000–09; Professor of Communications and Law, 2006-07; Interim Dean, Schreyer Honors College, 2005–06; Associate Professor of Communications and Law, tenured, 2001-06; Senator, University Faculty Senate, 2000–04; Associate Dean, Schreyer Honors College, 2002–03; Director, First-Year Seminars, College of Communications, 1999–2002; Assistant Professor of Communications and Law, 1996–2001
• University of the Pacific: Visiting Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, Spring 2011; Adjunct Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, Spring 2005
• Stanford University: Instructor and Teaching Assistant, 1993–96

Education

JD, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
PhD, BA, communication, Stanford University