Evelyn Douek
Knight Institute Senior Research Fellow 2021-2022; Stanford Law School

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 2021-2022. 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,” hosted the first season of the Knight Institute’s podcast, “Views on First,” and is featured on episode seven of “Views on First: War & Speech.” 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.
Selected Projects
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Views on First
What happens when social media collides with the First Amendment?

Selected Projects
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Views on First
What happens when social media collides with the First Amendment?
Writings & Appearances
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Essays and Scholarship
The Long Online Shadow of the Material Support Law
How the Supreme Court's ruling on a law meant to curb support to foreign terrorist groups has impacted our own domestic political discourse
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Deep Dive
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
Rereading “Editorial Discretion”
Despite what the Fifth Circuit recently suggested, “editorial discretion” is most definitely a whole thing
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