David Kaye

David Kaye is a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, the Independent Expert of the United States to the Venice Commission, and an affiliated scholar at Oxford University’s Bonavero Institute for Human Rights and Lund University’s Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. From 2014 – 2020 he served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. He is the author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (2019), a Trustee of ARTICLE 19, served as Independent Chair of the Board of the Global Network Initiative (2020 – 2024) and was 2023-2024 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Public International Law at Lund University, Sweden. He writes regularly for international and American law journals and media outlets. David began his legal career with the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.