Biography
Berin Szóka is a PhD candidate at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University. He holds a LL.M. in European Law from Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, a juris doctor from the University of Virginia, and a B.S. from Duke University. After clerking for a federal district court judge and practicing law at Latham & Watkins LLP, joined The Progress & Freedom Foundation. In 2010, he founded TechFreedom, a think tank that has studied the legal aspects of the digital revolution since 2010.
As President of TechFreedom, he advises policymakers and judges about Internet, telecommunications, consumer protection, child protection, constitutional, and administrative law. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and California (inactive). His research focuses on comparing U.S. and European approaches to regulating governance of content and platforms online, and on avoiding weaponization of such laws, especially for political ends.