David Kaye is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. In addition to his academic work, he is the Independent Board Chair of the Global Network Initiative and a Trustee of the global freedom of expression organization, ARTICLE 19. His 2019 book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet explores the ways in which companies, governments and activists struggle to define the rules for online expression.