Danielle Citron

Boston University School of Law

Danielle Citron is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

Danielle Citron's Articles

Criminal Law, Cyberlaw / Internet, State Law

Evaluating New York’s “Revenge Porn” Law: A Missed Opportunity to Protect Sexual Privacy

March 19, 2019

Six years after lawmakers first considered the issue of nonconsensual pornography, New York has criminalized the practice. We wholeheartedly support the effort in our role as legal scholars and as advocates for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). One of us (Franks) drafted the first model statute criminalizing “revenge porn” and worked on New York’s…

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Cyber Civil Rights in the Time of COVID-19

May 14, 2020

The fight for civil rights in the United States has historically focused on equal access to physical spaces: schools, workplaces, lunch counters, hotels, voting booths. This emphasis is understandable, because these were the places where people learned, worked, socialized, and voted. Civil rights activists made clear that people who are excluded from, or exploited in,…