Genevieve Lakier
Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar 2021-2022; University of Chicago Law School
Genevieve Lakier is professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. Her work examines the changing meaning of freedom of speech in the United States, the role that legislatures play in safeguarding free speech values, and the fight over freedom of speech on the social media platforms. Between 2006 and 2008, she was an academy scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and Supreme Court Review. Lakier was the Knight First Amendment Institute’s 2021-2022 senior visiting research scholar. In this role, she led an interdisciplinary inquiry into disinformation, misinformation, and the First Amendment in the mass public sphere. During her tenure at the Institute, Lakier brought together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore these issues in a series of roundtables, and organized a major symposium to produce new scholarship on lies, free speech, and the law.
Selected Projects
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Lies and the Law
A series of public conversations and publications exploring what the law can and should do about the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere
Selected Projects
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Lies and the Law
A series of public conversations and publications exploring what the law can and should do about the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere
Selected Events
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Lies, Free Speech, and the Law
A symposium exploring how the law regulates or should regulate false and misleading speech
Writings & Appearances
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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
Jawboning as a Problem of Constitutional Evasion
Or why the "significant encouragement" test is not so bad
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Essays and Scholarship
Lies and the Law: An Introduction
Exploring how the law regulates or should regulate false and misleading speech
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Deep Dive
Rereading “Editorial Discretion”
Despite what the Fifth Circuit recently suggested, “editorial discretion” is most definitely a whole thing