Jamal Greene
Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar, 2018-2019; Columbia Law School
Jamal Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, the law of the political process, First Amendment, and federal courts. His scholarship focuses on the structure of legal and constitutional argument. Professor Greene is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and is a frequent media commentator on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. Prior to joining Columbia's faculty he was an Alexander Fellow at New York University Law School. Professor Greene served as a law clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for the Hon. John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College. Greene was the Knight Institute's senior visiting research scholar in 2018-2019.
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Selected Projects
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Free Speech Futures
An essay series reimagining the First Amendment in the digital age
Contact
Selected Projects
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Free Speech Futures
An essay series reimagining the First Amendment in the digital age
Selected Events
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Book Talk: How Rights Went Wrong
A conversation with Jamal Greene about why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart
Writings & Appearances
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Essays and Scholarship
Government Counterspeech
What leeway the government should enjoy to engage in counterspeech to combat misinformation or promote truthful discourse
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Essays and Scholarship
Introducing Free Speech Futures
The Knight Institute's second essay series asks leading scholars to think beyond existing First Amendment doctrine to imagine what freedom of speech could be in our current moment and our future.