Ms.Crawford received her B.A.and J.D. from Yale University. She was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C., now WilmerHale) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Prof. Crawford writes about communications policy, digital copyright issues and Internet governance, and is a member of the ICANN board of directors. She is planning OneWebDay, a holiday for the internet scheduled for September 22, 2006.