Mary Pat Dwyer is the academic program director of the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy and was a consulting fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Prior to joining Georgetown Law, she was a fellow at the Brennan Center, where her research and writing focused on the effects of technology on civil liberties, as well as issues pertaining to content moderation and online speech. She previously served as counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she specialized in advising technology companies in international trade and national security matters. She also clerked for Hon. Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Hon. Graham C. Mullen III on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. She holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame, cum laude, and a JD from Duke University School of Law, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif.