Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Granick
Jennifer Granick in 2008
Personal details
Born	Jennifer Stisa Granick 1969 (age 47–48) Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Occupation	Attorney, educator

Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is an American attorney and educator. She is the Director of Civil Liberties for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She is best known for her work with intellectual property law, free speech, privacy law, and other things relating to computer security, and has represented several high-profile hackers.

Granick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Both of her parents were local educators. She attended Glen Ridge High School and then New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. After that, she moved to San Francisco to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993.

Granick initially worked in criminal defense, first at the state public defender's office, then as a trial attorney at the law firm Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996 to 2001 she worked in private practice, specializing in defending cases involving computer crime, and then started working at Stanford University in 2001, giving classes on cyber law. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field.

Granick was the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she was a lecturer in law. She founded and directed the Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure.