Xiangnong (George) Wang
Staff Attorney, Knight Institute

Xiangnong (George) Wang is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. He first joined the Institute as a legal fellow from 2020 to 2021 before serving as a law clerk to the Hon. William J. Kayatta, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Wang received a B.A. in public policy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. During law school, he was a student director of the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, co-chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and a Coker Fellow. Wang also worked on research related to improving diversity and equity in the legal profession as a member of the Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law project. In a previous career, he worked as an engineer. He has been published in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, and Just Security.
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Selected Projects
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TikTok v. Garland
A case before the Supreme Court challenging the federal TikTok ban
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Foundation for Global Political Exchange v. Treasury
A case challenging OFAC’s suppression of the exchange of political ideas
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"Views on First: Speech & the Border"
At the frontiers of censorship and surveillance

Contact
Selected Projects
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TikTok v. Garland
A case before the Supreme Court challenging the federal TikTok ban
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Foundation for Global Political Exchange v. Treasury
A case challenging OFAC’s suppression of the exchange of political ideas
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"Views on First: Speech & the Border"
At the frontiers of censorship and surveillance
Writings & Appearances
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Essays and Scholarship
Listeners’ Rights in the Time of Propaganda: The Story of Lamont v. Postmaster General
A history of an overlooked case about communist snail mail and its lessons for the digital age
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