Clay Calvert is a nonresident senior fellow in technology policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a professor of law emeritus at the Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.

Considered one of the foremost experts on First Amendment law, Dr. Calvert is often a source in writings about the First Amendment and freedom of expression.

Dr. Calvert has authored or coauthored more than 150 law journal articles on topics related to freedom of expression. He has published articles in journals affiliated with law schools including Harvard University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Virginia; the University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; Duke University; and Georgetown University. In the popular press, his commentaries have appeared in CNN.com, Fortune, The Hill, Time, Newsweek, The New Republic, the Orlando Sentinel, The Conversation, and the Tampa Bay Times, among other outlets.

He is the lead author of a market-leading undergraduate media law textbook, Mass Media Law, 22nd ed. (2023), and the author of Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (2000).

Dr. Calvert received a law degree from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and a PhD and BA in communication from Stanford University. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.