Frederick Lane

Current

Author, Attorney, Expert Witness, and Lecturer at www.FrederickLane.com

Past

Law Clerk at U.S. District Court (D. Mass.)

Education

Boston College Law School
Amherst College

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Frederick Lane’s Summary

I am an author, attorney, expert witness, and lecturer living in Burlington, VT. I have written five books; the most recent, American Privacy: The Four-Hundred-Year History of Our Most Contested Right, will be published by Beacon Press in November 2009. In August 2006, I was a guest on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to talk about about my book The Decency Wars. I have also appeared on a number of other networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and the BBC.

Frederick Lane’s Specialties:

Freelance writing, lecturing, expert witness, technology, privacy, surveillance, free speech, computer forensics, constitutional law, obscenity

Frederick Lane’s Experience

Author, Attorney, Expert Witness, and Lecturer

www.FrederickLane.com

(Writing and Editing industry)

February 1995 — Present (14 years 10 months)

-- Author of four books on law, society, and technology:

The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court (Beacon Press 2008)

The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture (Prometheus Books 2006)

The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy (Amacom 2003)

Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age (Routledge 2000)

-- Publisher of website summarizing computer forensics cases.
Law Clerk

U.S. District Court (D. Mass.)

(Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Judiciary industry)

June 1988 — October 1990 (2 years 5 months)

Served as law clerk to the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court (D. Mass.), sitting in Springfield, MA.