David Pozen
Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar 2017-2018; Columbia Law School
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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Writings & Appearances
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Essays and Scholarship
Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Facebookland
Introduction to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"
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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.
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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"
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Essays and Scholarship
The De-Americanization of Internet Freedom
Introduction to Jack Goldsmith's "The Failure of Internet Freedom"