Marvin Ammori is a lawyer, civil liberties advocate, and scholar best known for his work on

network neutrality Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of co ...

and

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issues. He currently serves as Chief Legal Officer of Uniswap.

Education and career

Ammori attended Brother Rice High School and went on to study literature at the

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. He earned his Juris Doctor from

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., where he studied under communications scholar

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. In 2007, while serving as the general counsel for nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, Ammori wrote the original Comcast complaint to the FCC in th
Comcast-BitTorrent
case, the first network neutrality enforcement action in the United States. He was active in the debate over the controversial copyright bills

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and the PROTECT IP Act, arguing that the bills would violate the First Amendment. From 2008 to 2011, Ammori taught law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln-College of Law, 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

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to adopt strong network neutrality rules on the basis of its Title II authority.

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, who coined the phrase

, said Ammori "deserved enormous credit for leading the march to Title II." Ammori collaborated with the

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show

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for its network neutrality segment and worked with White House staff leading to President Obama's network neutrality plan. For this work, he was named to the Politico 50 and a Washington Tech Titan in 2015. 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. From 2016 to 2018, Ammori served as general counsel o
Virgin Hyperloop One
where he helped the company raise over $200 million. In 2018, Ammori joined Protocol Labs. Ammori was an advisor on season six for HBO’s Emmy award-winning show ''Silicon Valley''. He is the author "On Internet Freedom."

Influence

In 2013, Ammori was named a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. In 2015, he was named a Senior Fellow to the Democracy Fund. He serves on the boards of public interest advocacy groups

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, an
Engine
and is an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.

References

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