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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law. Previously Chicago-Kent; Yale Law & ISP. Working primarily on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and constitutional / democratic theory.
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Matthew Schafer @matthewschafer.bsky.social Adjunct law prof Fordham Law; Scholar focusing on the intellectual history of press freedom: http://shorturl.at/bhsv7; rare book collector
Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social Distinguished University Prof., Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Prof, Denver Law; Research & write about free speech, qualified immunity, & ⚾; pro bono litigator; diehard Cleveland Guardians fan (he/him). Posts are my personal opinions.
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social Associate Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
Katie Townsend @ktownsend.bsky.social media & first amendment lawyer * partner @ Gibson Dunn * formerly @ reporters committee for freedom of the press * UF 🐊 & UVA Law grad * LA Kings fan 🦁🏒
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org Reporters Committee provides free legal help to journalists and protects their First Amendment rights. Find us at rcfp.org.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Christina Koningisor @ckoningisor.bsky.social Law professor at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings)
RonNell Andersen Jones @randersenjones.bsky.social Law professor, First Amendment scholar, press freedom advocate. Yale Information Society Project.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Claudia Haupt @cehaupt.bsky.social Visiting Professor @YLS; Professor of Law & Political Science @Northeastern; Fellow @YaleISP. Speech, health, tech. Writing a book on professional speech.
Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social Professor at Colorado Law. Data privacy, AI, speech.
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Christina Mulligan @cmulligan.bsky.social Professor of Law @BrooklynLawSchool. Visiting Scholar @TCDDublin. Previously @YaleISP. Private law & technology, parafamilies, property, copyright, constitutional law.
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
First Amendment Coalition @facoalition.bsky.social Fighting for free speech, a free press, and the public’s right to know. Inquiries: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis Law School, where I teach con law & civil procedure and write about academic freedom & aesthetics. Author of The Opinionated University (U Chicago Press 2026) and Permitting Art (Cabinet).
https://law.ucdavis.edu/people/brian-soucek
Jon Penney @penney.bsky.social Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oxford (OII / Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
Ariana Aboulafia @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social disability rights activist.
tech policy’s biggest swiftie.
views my own. 🏳️🌈⚖️
Simon Sun @simoncjsun.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NYCU Law.
Obsessed with the wild world of the Internet and proudly geeking out over Elinor Ostrom.
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
Tori Smith Ekstrand @toriekstrand.bsky.social Professor, Media Law, UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Media. Former AP exec. Speaking for myself & not UNC. "Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And NEVER tone it down." - Ilona Maher. #academicfreedom
Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person
I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/
I also post silly things too.
Erik Ugland @erikugland.bsky.social U. prof writing about media law, ethics, and policy.
David Loy @davidloy.bsky.social Legal Director, First Amendment Coalition. Views my own. Sometimes free speech is worth what it costs, but try living without it.
Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy @jpjassy.bsky.social First Amendment, media, entertainment, and intellectual property lawyer at Jassy Vick Carolan LLP. Taught First Amendment law at USC and UC Irvine Law Schools. Padre and Padres fan. Bills hours and Bills fan. Sco 🦆s! Faithful to US Constitution. 🇺🇸
Lisa P. Ramsey @lpramsey.bsky.social University of San Diego Law Professor. I teach IP law and write about potential conflicts between trademark laws and free speech rights. Author of “Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions” (Cambridge University Press 2026) www.lisapramsey.com
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ChicagoKentLaw. Constitutional litigator. Torts, Civ Pro, Health Law, § 1983. Current projects: right to travel, empirical Bivens.
Gabe Rusk @gaberusk.bsky.social University of Oxford & DU | Research: media law, legal history, art & censorship| Cooking & Buddhism on the side. 🏳️🌈
LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social law professor. dad. democracy & the constitution. hoops.
my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition.
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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro
Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state
Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431
Andy Geronimo @geronimooo.bsky.social Free speech lawyer & Director of the First Amendment Clinic @ CWRU School of Law (@cwru1stamclinic.bsky.social). ⚖️ Law stuff, Cleveland sports, dad tweets. Personal account.
Alex Sinha @alexsinha.bsky.social Law prof/philosopher at Hofstra Law. Formerly w/ ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Arnold & Porter. Working on race & inequality, legal theory, First Amendment, & national security. More at https://alexsinha.com/. Views mine.
Sonja West @sonjawest.bsky.social UGA Law Professor (First Amendment, Media Law, U.S. Supreme Court); Free Press scholar; occasional person of interest but rarely official suspect.
https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/sonja-r-west
Lucy Williams @lucywilliams.bsky.social Associate professor, BYU Law | mom of two | constitutional law, free speech, law and rhetoric, gender, political theory 
David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social @EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social Law prof writing about corporate governance at the intersection of democracy. Shareholder voting rights, corporate elections, First Amendment
Laura Portuondo @lauraportuondo.bsky.social Law professor writing about repro rights, gender equality, and the First Amendment. She/her.
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Jonathan Manes @jonathanmanes.bsky.social Senior Counsel at the Macarthur Justice Center working on surveillance and civil rights in the criminal legal system. Media Law & Gov’t Transparency at Northwestern Law.
Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social staff attorney @ Knight First Amendment Institute | he/him
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social Professor, Fordham Law School
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social John and Ann Curley Chair in First Amendment @ Penn State. Loves: Cardinals baseball, shelter dogs, solo travel. Hates: Oxford commas, two spaces after a period. Former Middle East expat. Texas refugee. Recovering journalist. Not your attorney.
Tom Leatherbury @tsleather.bsky.social Dallas and Austin lawyer. Clinical Professor of Law and Director, First Amendment Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law. Up the Toffees. Views my own
Lee Levine @leelevine.bsky.social Managing Director, The Press Clause Coalition
Author, In Bad Faith: Earl Caldwell and the Fight for a Free Press
All about my grandkids, a free press, the Washington Nationals, golf, and Stephen Sondheim—not necessarily in that order
Erin Carroll @erincarroll.bsky.social Faculty @GeorgetownLaw. Writing about the free press, democracy, & rule of law.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2123922
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.social bruh
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chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social Horrors and hot dogs.
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