Mike Godwin is Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informs users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructs criminal lawyers and law-enforcement personnel about computer civil-liberties issues, and conducts seminars about civil liberties in electronic communcation for a wide range of groups. Godwin has published articles for print and electronic publications on topics such as electronic searches and seizures, the First Amendment & electronic publications, and the application of international law to computer communications. In 1991-92, Godwin chaired a committee of the Massachusetts Computer Crime Commission, where he supervised the drafting of recommendations to Governor Weld for the development of computer-crime statutes.