Clay Calvert is the Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida. He formerly served as the John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also co-directed the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment and served as interim dean of the Schreyer Honors College. 
Clay has authored or co-authored more than 115 law journal articles on freedom of expression-related topics

He is co-author of a leading media law textbook and of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture.

Clay received his law degree from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law and then earned a Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University, where he also completed his undergraduate work with a B.A. in communication.