Jake Karr is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. During his previous tenure as a legal fellow at the Institute from 2018 to 2019, he helped litigate Knight Institute v. Trump, challenging the president’s censorship of critics on social media, and Edgar v. Haines, challenging the widespread censorship of millions of former federal government employees. Prior to re-joining the Institute in 2025, he served as acting director of the Technology Law and Policy Clinic at NYU School of Law, where he led advocacy, counseling, and litigation efforts on matters related to free expression, privacy, surveillance, reproductive freedom, and corporate and government transparency. He was also a fellow at NYU School of Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy and a member of the Knowing Machines research project.

Karr has been published in the Fordham Law Review, the New Mexico Law Review, Digital Journalism, Lawfare, Nieman Lab, and Tech Policy Press, among other publications. Earlier in his career, he was a Stanton Fellow in the First Amendment Clinic at ASU College of Law, an associate at a litigation boutique in New York City, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 

Karr holds a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from NYU School of Law, where he served as an articles editor on the NYU Law Review.