Biography

M. Ryan Calo is a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society. Prior to joining the law school in 2008, Calo was an associate at Covington & Burling, LLP, where he advised companies on issues of data security, privacy, and FCC rules and rulemaking.

Calo received his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a contributing editor to the Michigan Law Review and symposium editor of the Journal of Law Reform. In 2005-2006, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Field of Interest/Expertise

• Privacy and Telecommunications

Publications

• "Criminal Law and the Internet," Pike & Fischer Internet Law & Regulation (2008) (co-author)
• "United States: Privacy Developments for 2007", 4:1 Data Protection Law & Policy (Jan. 2007) (co-author)
• "Doe v. MySpace, Inc.", 7:1 E-Commerce Law Reports (Feb. 2007)
• "Zango, Inc. v. PC Tools Pty Ltd.", 7:3 E-Commerce Law Reports (Sep. 2007)
• "Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter," 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1877 (2005)

In the News

• Tennessee Woman Arrested for Facebook 'Poke'
  ABC News, October 12, 2009
• Legalese An Issue For Twitter
  KCBS 740 AM & 106.9 FM News, September 13, 2009
• New Maine Law Spins A Tangled Web
  Portland Press Herald, August 24, 2009
• Lori Drew Case Could Expand Computer Fraud Law
  Missouri Lawyers Weekly, June 18, 2009
• Millions Sign Up For Facebook Vanity Usernames
  CBS 5 / KCBS / AP, June 14, 2009

Publications & Cases

• M. Ryan Calo, People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship, 114 Pennsylvania State Law Review (forthcoming 2010).
• M. Ryan Calo and Andrew Jacobs, The New England Patriots, L.P. v. STUBHUB, Inc. & Others, 9 E-Commerce Law Reports 8 (2009).
• Ryan Calo, How Can I Protect Myself Against "Cyberspite"? Best Life, May 2009, pg. 22.