Clay Calvert is a nonresident senior fellow in technology policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He also is 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 in Gaineville.

Calvert has authored or coauthored more than 150 law journal articles on topics related to freedom of expression. Since June 2023, he has published more than 135 columns for AEIdeas on issues related to communication technologies, media law, and the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and free press.

He is the lead author of a market-leading undergraduate media law textbook, Mass Media Law, 2026 Release (McGraw Hill 2026), and the author of Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (Westview Press 2000).

Calvert earned 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.