Evelyn Douek
Evelyn Douek is an assistant professor of law at Stanford Law School and was a senior research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University from 2021-22. Her scholarship focuses on online speech regulation, content moderation, and platform governance. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous outlets, including the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, The Atlantic, and Slate. She hosts a podcast about content moderation called Moderated Content, and hosted the first season of the Knight Institute's podcast, Views on First. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School on private and public regulation of online speech, and clerked for Justice Susan Kiefel of the High Court of Australia.
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Deep Dive : Student Protests, Title VI, and the First Amendment
Title VI as a Jawbone
The fact that Title VI has come to possess such importance when it comes to regulating protest and political expression on campus raises significant First Amendment questions
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Deep Dive : Jawboning
The Jawboning Forests and Trees
Systemic problems require systemic solutions.
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading “Editorial Discretion”
Despite what the Fifth Circuit recently suggested, “editorial discretion” is most definitely a whole thing
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Schenck v. United States
Please don't falsely yell fire in a crowded theater
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Bluman v. Federal Election Commission
Foreigners have interesting and important things to say too
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Herbert v. Lando
Why exercising editorial discretion doesn’t exempt platforms from all transparency mandates
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Alvarez
It turns out the government can regulate lies … sometimes
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading the First Amendment
Exposing the false assumptions that underlie contemporary First Amendment debates
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Essays and Scholarship
The Rise of Content Cartels
Urging transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions
By Evelyn Douek