David Pozen
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and was the Knight Institute’s inaugural visiting scholar, 2017-2018. Prior to joining Columbia Law School in 2012, he served as a special assistant to U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a special advisor to Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh at the Department of State. He was also a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. An internationally recognized scholar of information law and constitutional law, Pozen has written widely on subjects such as government secrecy, privacy theory, civil disobedience, and the separation of powers. His current academic projects include a forthcoming book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs.
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
“Truth Drives Out Lies” and Other Misinformation
Justice Kennedy, free speech fabulist
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Facebookland
Introduction to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
Introducing the Emerging Threats Essays
The Knight Institute's inaugural essay series invites leading thinkers to identify and grapple with newly arising or intensifying structural threats to the system of free expression.
By Jameel Jaffer & David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
Crisis in the Archives
Introduction to Matthew Connelly's "State Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It"
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
The De-Americanization of Internet Freedom
Introduction to Jack Goldsmith's "The Failure of Internet Freedom"
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
Intermediary Immunity and Discriminatory Designs
Introduction to Olivier Sylvain's "Discriminatory Designs on User Data"
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
Straining (Analogies) to Make Sense of the First Amendment in Cyberspace
Introduction to Heather Whitney's "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"
By David Pozen -
Essays and Scholarship
From the Heckler’s Veto to the Provocateur’s Privilege
Introduction to Frederick Schauer's "The Hostile Audience Revisited"
By David Pozen