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== Education ==
Svoboda graduated cum laude from [https://hls.harvard.edu/ Harvard Law School ] in 1991. Previously, he received a bachelor's degree in Physics and English studies from the {{UNI|University of California, 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, 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 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"/>
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ARC's work has been recognized by [https://hls.harvard.edu/ 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>{{REFweb
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 served from 1996 to 2022 as the senior board member of and (from 2000 to 2022) as Public Relations Director for the [https://ncfm.org/ 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/>
Svoboda has two children, a boy and a girl.<ref name="NCMSvoboda"/>
== Videos ==
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* J. Steven Svoboda. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZP714pMUE Circumcision Lawsuits]. 2010-06-28.
* J. Steven Svoboda. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2vIGlAIFU The Right to Bodily Integrity]. 2013-07-17.
* J. Steven Svoboda. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX9FEiPwyIM Biases in the Making of the AAP's Circumcision Policy Revealed]. 2017-09-27.
* J. Steven Svoboda. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCWD0imic0 Talking with Steven Svoboda]. 2018-09-10.
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[The Right To Bodily Integrity - J. Steven Svoboda]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
* [https://www.arclaw.org/ Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]