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 is the Knight First Amendment Institute’s 2021-2022 senior visiting research scholar. In this role, she has led an interdisciplinary inquiry into disinformation, misinformation, and the First Amendment in the mass public sphere. During her tenure at the Institute, Lakier has 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.

Writings & Appearances
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Deep Dive
New Research Project Focuses on Lies and the Law
How does (or should) the law shape the regulation of lies, disinformation, and misinformation in the digital age
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Institute Update
Call for Papers: Lies, Free Speech, and the Law
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” to be held at Columbia Law School, on April 7-8, 2022. The symposium will explore how the law regulates, or should regulate, false and misleading...
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Essays and Scholarship
The Limits of Antimonopoly Law as a Solution to the Problems of the Platform Public Sphere
Arguing which antimonopoly tools do and don't matter
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Essays and Scholarship
The Problem Isn't the Use of Analogies but the Analogies Courts Use
Response to Heather Whitney's essay "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"