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'''J. Steven Svoboda''' is a US an American attorney and founder of the organization "[[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]". ==Education==Svoboda graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991. Previously, he received a bachelor's degree in Physics and English studies from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), receiving awards as an Outstanding Student in each of his two majors as well as being one of five Outstanding Seniors chosen from his undergraduate class. He then received a master's degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.<ref name="ARC Bio">{{cite web|title=J. Steven Svoboda bio|url=http://www.arclaw.org/about-us/people/j-steven-svoboda-esq|website=Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC)|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref>
In 2015, he gave a speech on the topic "The rights of the child vs the rights of the parent" on the [[Genital_Autonomy_and_Children’s_Rights#14th_Symposium_.282015_in_Frankfurt.2C_Germany.29|14th symposium]] of [[Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights]].
==Work==
Svoboda has been working as a full-time patent lawyer since May 2004. His first two patents became two of the core patents behind GPS navigation and Yelp. He has helped Fetch Robotics, Inc. receive eight patents to date with two more expected before the end of 2018. Svoboda founded [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]] in 1997.<ref name="ARC Bio" />
In July 2018, an international team of which Svoboda was a member—the International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy, submitted to the United Nations a report on circumcision as a human rights violation, capping nearly two full years of work. He has published over 200 reviews of books relating to men, boys, and gender. For eight years, he wrote a column for ''Everyman'' magazine titled, "Gender, Law, and Society," which he renamed after his first child's birth, "Gender, Law, and Fatherhood." He is co-author, with Warren Farrell and James Sterba, of the gender studies textbook ''Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?'' (Oxford University Press, 2007). He has also been a contributor to the website Men's News Daily.<ref name="ARC Bio" />
Svoboda was invited by the United Nations to participate in a 2001 human rights meeting in Geneva where his presentation was the basis of a committee of experts writing a UN document entirely devoted to the subject of male circumcision.<ref name="ARC Bio" />
He was interviewed on Penn and Teller's television program on Showtime (TV network), where he explained his view of some of the legal aspects concerning male circumcision in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn & Teller video|url=http://www.arclaw.org/our-work/videos/steven-svoboda-penn-tellers-bullshit|website=Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC)|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref>
After the death in June 2011 of his friend, the activist [[Van Lewis]], Svoboda was invited to deliver a memorial speech in Lewis' honor at a memorial service in Tallahassee. Many activists contributed to Svoboda's memorial talk.<ref>{{cite web|title=Van Lewis Eulogy by Steven Svoboda|url=http://www.arclaw.org/resources/articles/van-lewis-eulogy-steven-svoboda|website=Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC)|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref>
ARC's work has been recognized by Harvard Law School, the ''New York Times'', the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Men's Health'' magazine, and numerous other well-known organizations and publications.<ref name="ARC Bio" />
Svoboda is also the founder of the Bus Stop Co-op, a vegetarian organic food cooperative in Berkeley, California.<ref name=NCMSvoboda>{{cite web|title=J. Steven Svoboda, Esq.|url=http://ncfm.org/advisor-board/j-steven-svoboda-esq/|website=National Coalition for Men|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref>
He is a former performance artist and a tournament chess player rated as an expert (the ranking below master) by the United States Chess Federation.<ref name=NCMSvoboda />
He is the senior board member of and Public Relations Director for the National Coalition for Men, which claims to be the world's oldest and largest non-profit devoted to publicizing the alleged harm done to men and boys by gender discrimination.<ref name=NCMSvoboda />
Steven remarried in 2018 to the former Gina Maria Mele, a business consultant with a Master's degree in neurobiology. He has two children, a boy and a girl.<ref name=NCMSvoboda />
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