Ben Sperry
Senior Scholar & Lead Counsel
Ben Sperry is a senior scholar of innovation policy and lead counsel at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation, including online speech, platform regulation, competition policy, payment-card regulation, telecommunications, and criminal-justice reform. He also leads ICLE’s amicus work in state and federal courts.
Before joining ICLE, Sperry worked in public service as an assistant public defender in the Crawford County Office of the Public Defender in Pennsylvania and as a judicial law clerk in the Erie County Court of Common Pleas. He also held policy and research roles at TechFreedom, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Justice, and the Washington Legal Foundation.
Sperry is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., 5th, 6th, and 9th Circuits.
He earned a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College.
