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Megan Graham is a clinical professor, managing attorney for Iowa Law's Legal Clinics, and the director of the Technology Law Clinic. Her work in the Technology Law Clinic centers on the role technology plays in criminal defendants’ cases and the broader criminal legal system.

Professor Graham regularly advises public defenders on the technology issues that appear in their clients’ cases, including overbroad search warrants for digital devices, probabilistic genotyping software, and facial recognition, among others. She has filed and litigated public records act requests to uncover more information about technologies used in criminal investigations and cases. And she has trained hundreds of federal and state defense attorneys and judges around the country on various technology and criminal law topics.

Prior to joining Iowa Law, Professor Graham taught students in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. She also clerked for then-Magistrate Judge Katherine Menendez in the District of Minnesota. 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.

Research areas

• Technology and criminal law

Teaching areas

• Technology Law Clinic
• Electronic surveillance
• National security