Adam Goldstein
For 13 years, Adam was an attorney with the Student Press Law Center, giving legal assistance to over 15,000 students, parents, and others. While at the Center, he co-authored their legal textbook, Law of the Student Press. In the past, he taught student media law for Michigan State University’s graduate school of education and advocated for domain name owners in arbitration. He blogs on First Amendment and civil rights issues on the Huffington Post. Adam is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and is licensed to practice in New York. In his free time, he researches the history of classic American recipes.
Recent Writings
- A tale of two pretexts: Sham investigations silence professors at Central Florida and Princeton ,
- By delaying free speech survey in response to criticism, University of Wisconsin System errs,
- Yale’s treatment of psych lecturer another step in continuing retreat from academic freedom ,
- University of South Carolina indefinitely postpones speech on Ethiopian civil war after regime's defenders complain,
- New Republic, old data: Article on UATX wrongly dismisses campus illiberalism problem,
- Who’s protected by a free student press? Part II: Viewpoint diversity and neutrality in the newsroom,
- ‘The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder’ introduces a new generation to the infamous (and often absurd) Anthony Comstock,
- Who’s protected by a free student press? Part I: The right to editorial independence.,
- 13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate,
- John McWhorter’s ‘Nine Nasty Words’ is my May book of the month — with a serious digression into academic freedom & teaching about epithets,
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