Hanni Fakhoury focuses on criminal law, privacy, and free speech litigation and advocacy. He was part of the defense team that reversed Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction, has argued before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of warrantless cell tracking, and serves as co-counsel in a 1st Amendment challenge to CA’s Prop 35 in federal court. He’s written numerous amicus briefs in state and federal courts on warrantless police surveillance and cybercrime, and his writings have been published in the New York Times, Wired, Slate and JURIST. Hanni has testified before the California state legislature on proposed electronic privacy legislation. He previously worked as a federal public defender in San Diego where he tried many jury and bench trials and argued and won multiple times before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated from UC Berkeley and received his law degree with distinction from Pacific McGeorge School of Law.