Clay Calvert, Ph.D.

Eminent Scholar, Mass Communication in the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville

Clay Calvert is the Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  He also directs the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, which has filed multiple friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving the rights of free speech, free press and petition.  Calvert is the author or co-author of more than 150 law journal articles and is co-author of the market-leading undergraduate textbook Mass Media Law (20th ed. 2018, McGraw-Hill Education).  He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.