
evelyn douek
evelyn douek joined the Institute in Fall 2021 as senior research fellow, and is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her scholarship focuses on online speech regulation, content moderation, and platform governance. douek’s work with the Institute will focus on the regulation of speech on and by social media platforms, and she will write essays and organize events about questions related to content moderation by social media platforms, and write proposals for regulating big tech, as well as work closely with Institute staff to support and expand its research program. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous outlets, including the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, The Atlantic, and Slate. She also blogs and podcasts at Lawfare. Before joining Harvard to complete a Master of Laws, douek clerked for Chief Justice Susan Kiefel.
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Schenck v. United States
Please don't falsely yell fire in a crowded theater
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Bluman v. Federal Election Commission
Foreigners have interesting and important things to say too
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Herbert v. Lando
Why exercising editorial discretion doesn’t exempt platforms from all transparency mandates
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading the First Amendment
Exposing the false assumptions that underlie contemporary First Amendment debates
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Deep Dive : Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Alvarez
It turns out the government can regulate lies … sometimes
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Essays and Scholarship
The Rise of Content Cartels
Urging transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions
By evelyn douek