Megan Graham

Megan Graham is a Clinical Supervising Attorney in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Her work centers on the role technology plays in criminal defendants’ cases and the broader criminal legal system.

Graham’s advocacy focuses on advising public defenders on the technology issues that appear in their clients’ cases. She has written model briefs and counseling memoranda for public defenders on issues ranging from overbroad search warrants for digital devices to probabilistic genotyping software to facial recognition. Graham has filed and litigated public records act requests to uncover more information about the technologies used in criminal cases. She has also trained federal and state defense attorneys from around the country on various technology and criminal law topics.

Graham’s writings have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and Just Security. She has been quoted in other press outlets, including Agence France-Presse, The Nation, Vice’s Motherboard, TechDirt, and Defense One, and she has appeared on Third Chair, a podcast produced by the Training Division of the Federal Defender Services Office.

Prior to coming to Berkeley Law, Graham clerked for Magistrate Judge Katherine Menendez in the District of Minnesota and was a visiting research fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center. Before that, she worked at the Brennan Center for Justice and was the privacy, security, and technology fellow and assistant managing editor at Just Security. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, Queens University Belfast, and NYU School of Law.