Adam Goldstein
President's Staff Team
Adam is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at FIRE, where he researches and writes about free expression and the First Amendment. In his time at FIRE, he has worked in research, public advocacy, campus rights, and policy reform, and contributed research to The Coddling of the American Mind and The Canceling of the American Mind. 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, advocated for domain name owners in arbitration, and blogged about 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 and the District of Columbia.
Recent Writings
- Charles Negy was fired over a tweet — now he's having his day in court,
- Getting copyright wrong: Nashville judge cites copyright law to withhold Covenant school shooter’s writings,
- Anti-free speech trends on campus threaten freedom but can be reversed,
- 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,
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