Global Internet Freedom Project Faculty

Professor Arturo J. Carrillo headshot

Professor Arturo Carrillo is Clinical Professor of Law and founding Director of the Civil and Human Rights Law Clinic at the George Washington University Law School, where he also co-directs the Global Internet Freedom Project. Since 2012, he has been actively involved in the Global Network Initiative (GNI) as a member of the academic constituency, which he represented on the GNI Board for a term. Professor Carrillo has also consulted as an expert with a wide range of digital rights organizations – Internews, the ABA’s Rule of Law Initiative, and Reporters Without Borders, among others -- on projects in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Prior to entering the academy full time, Professor Carrillo worked as a legal advisor on human rights to the United Nations, as well as for non-governmental organizations in his native Colombia. His research focuses on the intersection of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and international law, especially human rights and humanitarian law, with an emphasis on the promotion of Internet freedom principles worldwide. As an engaged academic, Professor Carrillo has a proven track record of supervising teams of researchers, litigators and advocates working in the civil/human rights field, and is the author of several practitioners' and academic publications in this field.


Professor Dawn Carla Nunziato headshot

Professor Dawn Carla Nunziato is Professor of Law and The William Wallace Kirkpatrick Research Professor at The George Washington University Law School, where she is the Co-Director of EthicalTech@GW and the Global Internet Freedom Project and is an Affiliate of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics. She currently serves as Chair of the TikTok Content Advisory Council. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of content regulation on the Internet and is the author of the critically acclaimed book Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age (Stanford University Press). She has written extensively on issues involving free speech and information privacy on the Internet and has lectured and taught courses on these subjects around the world, including at Oxford University, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Tsinghua University in Beijing, the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Freiburg, the Qatar Ministry of Culture, the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She has been an invited presenter at leading law schools and universities, including Georgetown, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, Washington University, and Yale. While a law student at the University of Virginia, she served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review and was the recipient of the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize, awarded to the outstanding member of the graduating class. Before joining the academy, she practiced Internet law and intellectual property law at Covington & Burling.