Hayden Davis

Hayden Davis is a Law Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). His work focuses on regulating big tech companies, especially holding social media companies accountable for designing products that hurt the public. He has been involved in developing many laws to keep kids safe online and has filed briefs defending these laws in court from industry challenges.

Hayden received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and his B.A. from Emory University. During law school, he was Executive Managing Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, sat on the Submissions Committee for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and directed the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.

His writing has been published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation and the Review of Litigation. His work has been cited by federal courts as well as in briefing before the U.S. Supreme Court, and received Harvard’s Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize.

Hayden previously served as Head of Public Policy at the Georgia Innocence Project, and as President of the Accurate Justice Project, where he advanced reforms to correct wrongful convictions and improve public safety. He is a member of the Virginia and Georgia Bars.

Areas of expertise: First Amendment, Section 230, social media regulation, platform governance and accountability, children’s online safety, and chatbots.

Pronouns: he/him

Contact: [Mailbox], 202.483.1140