Kelly Sarabyn

Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow

Kelly Sarabyn graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Virginia, where she earned a B.A. with highest distinction in Political Science. Her academic interests include constitutional law, and political philosophy, particularly theories of natural law and virtue ethics. During law school, she served on the staff of the Yale Journal of International Law and wrote a substantial paper on the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. At FIRE, she writes legal scholarship related to maintaining the marketplace of ideas on university campuses.

Contributions to The Torch

• "Congress Recognizes Importance of Free Speech, Due Process in Higher Education," Kelly Sarabyn, August 15, 2008
• "DeJohn and the Fate of Speech Codes on Campus," Kelly Sarabyn, August 5, 2008
• "Victory for Free Speech in DeJohn v. Temple," Kelly Sarabyn, August 4, 2008
• "The Slippery Slope of Suppressing Speech," Kelly Sarabyn, July 30, 2008
• "The Right to Film on Campus," Kelly Sarabyn, June 26, 2008
• "Greg Lukianoff: ‘Campus Speech Codes: Absurd, Tenacious, and Everywhere’," Kelly Sarabyn, May 28, 2008
• "More Commentary on Academic Freedom Case," Kelly Sarabyn, May 28, 2008
• "Shippensburg Issues Statement on Speech Code Lawsuit, Blames Student Government for Constitutional Violations," Kelly Sarabyn, May 15, 2008
• "Amicus Curiae Brief Filed in Ninth Circuit Academic Freedom Case," Kelly Sarabyn, May 14, 2008
• "Yale Finds Fraternity Members Who Said They Loved Yale Sluts Not Guilty," Kelly Sarabyn, April 28, 2008
• "Yale Caves into Its Women’s Center’s Speech-Repressing Demands," Kelly Sarabyn, March 13, 2008
• "Keeping Campus Speech Codes in Perspective: A Response to Eugene Volokh," Kelly Sarabyn, February 22, 2008
• "Montclair Student Government Partially Restores Student Paper’s Funds," Kelly Sarabyn, February 1, 2008
• "Student Newspaper Loses Its Funding After Criticizing Student Government," Kelly Sarabyn, January 30, 2008
• "Yale Women’s Center Threatens to Sue Fraternity for its Misogynistic Speech," Kelly Sarabyn, January 23, 2008
• "Supreme Court Declines to Review Poor Ninth Circuit Decision," Kelly Sarabyn, January 9, 2008
• "Colleges, Mandatory Counseling, and the Right of Private Conscience," Kelly Sarabyn, December 31, 2007
• "Is the University of Delaware Violating the Federal Law on Human Subject Research?," Kelly Sarabyn, October 31, 2007