Michael Kwun

Michael Kwun is a Senior Staff Attorney at EFF, focusing on all manner of intellectual property issues. Michael comes to EFF from Google, where, as Managing Counsel, Litigation, he was responsible for defending Google in a wide variety of cases, including copyright cases about YouTube, Google Book Search, and Google Image Search; trademark cases about Google AdWords; and patent cases aimed at numerous Google products. Before joining Google, Michael was an associate at the law firm Keker & Van Nest, where he worked on one of the early cases challenging Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas issued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Michael is also a long-time geek; his first publication was a short computer program that appeared in a Commodore computer enthusiast magazine in 1985. In addition to his work at EFF, Michael sits on the board of directors of the East Bay Community Law Center, which provides legal services to the low-income community and hands-on clinical education for law students; the advisory board of the Korea Policy Institute, which provides timely analysis of United States policies toward Korea and developments on the Korean peninsula; and the advisory board for the Green Bag Reader, an annual collection of exemplary legal writing. Michael received his law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.