Marvin Ammori

Marvin Ammori is an American innovation lawyer, civil liberties advocate, and scholar best known for his work on network neutrality and Internet freedom issues generally. In 2016, Ammori was named General Counsel for Hyperloop One in Los Angeles. He serves on the boards of public interest advocacy groups Demand Progress and Fight for the Future, and is an Affiliate Scholar with Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.

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In 2007, while serving as the General Counsel for nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, he brought the Comcast-BitTorrent case, the first network neutrality enforcement action in the United States. Ammori was active in the debate over the controversial copyright bills SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act, arguing that the bills would violate the First Amendment. Partly for his role in opposing SOPA and PIPA, Ammori was recognized in Fast Company's 2012 "100 Most Creative People in Business."

In 2014 and 2015, Ammori led the effort to get the Federal Communications Commission to adopt strong network neutrality rules on the basis of its Title II authority. Tim Wu, who coined the phrase network neutrality, said that Ammori "deserved enormous credit for leading the march to Title II." Ammori collaborated with the John Oliver show 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.

Ammori is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he studied under communications scholar Yochai Benkler. From 2008 to 2011, he was a law professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law. He was a 2013 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of an e-book entitled "On Internet Freedom." As a lawyer, Ammori has advised companies including Google and Apple on network neutrality, copyright, and encryption.