Jarred Taylor is a second-year student at William & Mary Law School. He is a member of the William and Mary Law Review, serves as a graduate fellow at the Center for Legal and Court Technology, and is an officer with the Student Intellectual Property Society. Jarred is primarily interested in Internet law, especially digital copyright, online privacy, and free expression issues.
In summer 2011, Jarred worked as a legal intern for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before law school, he was the legal assistant for Google‘s Product Counsel team. Prior to Google, he worked as a paralegal with Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.
Jarred grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in Political Science and French. He studied in Tours, France for a year, played drums for the basketball pep band, and worked for WALT student radio. During his undergraduate summers, Jarred worked as a research assistant for Dr. Patrick Sellers, as a Europe Program intern with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as an assistant paralegal with Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC.
From 2005 to 2007, Jarred kept a different personal blog (now retired). In 2008, he took up blogging again by starting Tropophilia with his best friend Taylor Ansley . This website is a mix of Jarred’s thoughts about the Internet and the myriad legal issues it presents, as well as occasional personal updates about his life and career.
Selected Work
Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF to Obama Administration: Syrians Deserve Access to Communications and Information Tools, July 2011 – performed majority of research and drafted blog post
- Google Transparency Report, July-December 2009 dataset – collection and analysis of government-requested content removals data
- Google Search Stories, winter 2009/2010 – led legal review of videos
- “Parisian Love” Google Super Bowl Commercial, January 2010 – led legal review of video, received Operating Committee award (second-highest company honor) for assistance in project
Undergraduate
- Une VIe République?: Les Projects pour une Nouvelle Régime Politique (“A Sixth Republic?: Proposals for a New Political Structure”) – Senior thesis for French major, spring 2007
- The French Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty: Exploring the “No” Vote Through Public Opinion - Senior thesis for Political Science major, fall 2006
- La Réforme de la Présidence de la République (“Reforming the French Presidency”) – Research paper, spring 2006
- Searching for a More Perfect Union: Executive War Authority and the Reagan Administration - Research paper, spring 2005
- Turkey and the Democratization: The Influence of the European Union - Research paper, spring 2005
- The 1995 Resumption of French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific: International Impact and Significance - Major paper, spring 2004
