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Alex Marthews, President
Alex Marthews, President

Alex Marthews is a US-UK dual citizen and Massachusetts resident, a father of four, the founder and president of Digital Fourth, and the elected National Chair of its nationwide coalition Restore The Fourth.

As a researcher, Alex has authored studies of the chilling effect arising from the Snowden revelations; the constitutionality of Massachusetts’ fusion centers; problems of identity and surveillance on the blockchain; and antitrust in social media. For his work opposing CISA, Alex was awarded Fight for the Future’s “Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness” in 2017.

Alex holds a master’s degree in public policy from UC Berkeley, where he helped to design their first course on Cyberlaw and researched discrimination in online blocking and filtering systems.

In his prior career, he was the executive director of nonprofits in the fields of historic preservation, poverty, and girls’ education in East Africa.

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David Law, Treasurer
David Law, Treasurer

David Law is the Treasurer of the Campaign for Digital Fourth Amendment Rights. Professor Law is the Sir Y.K. Pao Chair in Public Law at the University of Hong Kong and is tenured at Washington University in St. Louis. His interests include public law, comparative law, law and social science, judicial politics, and constitutional and political theory. His scholarship is interdisciplinary and combines quantitative and qualitative research methods with comparative approaches to the study of global constitutionalism, constitutional adjudication, and judicial decision-making more generally. Prior to entering academia, he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review, clerked for the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced law with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. He then obtained a Ph.D. in political science at Stanford University, where he held a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and concurrently attended the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, where he received a degree in European and comparative law. He is a member of the executive committee of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

Catherine Tucker, Clerk
Catherine Tucker, Clerk

Catherine Tucker is the Clerk of the Campaign for Digital Fourth Amendment Rights. She is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data to improve their operations and marketing and in the challenges this poses for regulations designed to promote innovation. She has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, social media and electronic privacy. Generally, most of her research lies in the interface between Marketing, Economics and Law. She has received an NSF CAREER award for her work on digital privacy and a Garfield Award for her work on electronic medical records. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from Stanford University, and a BA from Oxford University.

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