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== 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 {{UNI|University of California at , Los Angeles |UCLA}} (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 {{UNI|University of California at , Berkeley|UCBE}}.<ref name="ARC Bio">{{REFweb
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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?'' ({{UNI|Oxford University |Oxon}} 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"/>