Catherine Crump

Catherine Crump is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. For two decades she has worked at the intersection of technology, government power, and civil liberties — first as a litigator, now as a scholar and clinician training the next generation of public-interest lawyers.

Her work examines how new surveillance tools — drones, automated license-plate readers, cell-phone tracking, police body cameras — reshape privacy, free speech, and the balance of power between individuals and the state. Before Berkeley, she was a staff attorney at the ACLU, and she later served in the White House as a Senior Policy Advisor for Criminal Justice.