Mike Ananny is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC), where he studies how people build the digital news infrastructures, algorithmic systems, and artificial intelligences that create public life. He codirects USC’s interdisciplinary research collectives “MASTS” (Media as Socio Technical Systems) and “AIMS” (Artificial Intelligence in Media and Storytelling), and is the author of Networked Press Freedom (MIT Press) and coeditor of Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press).

RonNell Andersen Jones is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lee E. Teitelbaum Chair in Law at the University of Utah. She is an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Andersen Jones is a First Amendment scholar who researches and writes on legal issues affecting the press and on the intersection between media and the courts, with an emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court. She previously served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Samantha Barbas is a Professor of Law and the Aliber Family Chair in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Her most recent book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan (University of California Press, 2023), tracks the saga behind one of the most important First Amendment rulings in history, New York Times v. Sullivan.

Hannah Bloch-Wehba is an associate professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law who teaches and writes on law and technology. She is also an affiliated fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, an affiliated scholar at NYU School of Law’s Policing Project, and a fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

Joseph Blocher is the Lanty L. Smith ‘67 Distinguished Professor of Law and the senior associate dean of faculty at Duke University School of Law. He is the coauthor of Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment (NYU Press, 2017) and The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and serves as co-director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

Erin C. Carroll is a professor of law and legal practice at Georgetown University Law Center. Her teaching and research interests focus on legal analysis and communication, rhetoric, the free press, technology, and the intersection of these subjects. She serves as chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Communication, Media and Information Law.

Erwin Chemerinsky became the thirteenth Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008 to 2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Alan K. Chen is the Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches and writes about free speech doctrine and theory. He is the coauthor of Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment (NYU Press, 2017) and has published numerous scholarly articles about the First Amendment in leading national law journals.

Meredith D. Clark is an associate professor of race and political communication in the Hussman School of Journalism & Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power in digital, social, and news media, and is informed by the years she spent working in newsrooms as an editor, editorial writer, and columnist.

Amy Gajda is a journalist turned lawyer recognized internationally for her expertise in privacy and media law. Much of her scholarship explores the tensions between social regulation of access to information and First Amendment values, particularly the shifting boundaries of press freedoms and rising public anxieties about the erosion of privacy.

Katy Glenn Bass is the research director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. She is responsible for conceptualizing and executing all of the Institute’s research initiatives, including the production of scholarship and research materials, the organization of conferences and symposia, and the Institute’s Visiting Research Scholars program.

Richard L. Hasen is the Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law and professor of political science at UCLA. He is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts, and is the coauthor of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2020 as a CNN Election Law Analyst and as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst in 2022. He directs UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project.

Vicki C. Jackson, Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law (previously known as the Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law), writes and teaches about U.S. constitutional law, federal courts, and comparative constitutional law. She is the author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), and coauthor, with Mark Tushnet, of Comparative Constitutional Law (3d ed. 2014), a course book in the field.

Jameel Jaffer is the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Until August 2016, Jaffer served as deputy legal director at the ACLU, where he oversaw the organization’s work on free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights.

Heidi Kitrosser is William W. Gurley Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Kitrosser is an expert on the constitutional law of federal government secrecy and on separation of powers and free speech law more broadly. She has written, spoken, and consulted widely on these topics. Her book, Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution, was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. It was awarded the 2014 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

Christina Koningisor is an associate professor of law at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, media law, and the law of information access and government transparency. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal.

Margaret B. Kwoka is the Lawrence Herman Professor in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she teaches courses on civil procedure, federal courts, and administrative law. Her articles on government transparency have appeared in leading law reviews and her book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, was published by Cambridge in 2021. She has served on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee, as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and testified before the U.S. Congress on freedom of information laws.

Lili Levi is a Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and a Life Member of the American Law Institute. Her substantial scholarship focuses on communications and media law from a law and society perspective.

Lyrissa Lidsky is the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She previously served as dean of the University of Missouri School of Law from 2017 to 2022. Lidsky is co-reporter on the Restatement of Defamation and Privacy, recently succeeded Judge Robert Sack as the author of Sack on Defamation, and has authored media law and First Amendment casebooks.

Wesley Lowery is one of the nation’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. His “Fatal Force” project, focused on people shot and killed by the police, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the George Polk Award, and the Peabody Award. Lowery has worked for CBS News and the Washington Post.

Gregory P. Magarian is the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He teaches and writes about U.S. constitutional law, focusing on expressive freedom. His first book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court’s First Amendment, was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. His writing also examines church and state, gun regulation, and regulations of the media and the political process. He received his B.A. from Yale and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He previously served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, fairness and privacy, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop. An expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities, she also writes and teaches about digital communications, democracy, privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict. Her most recent book is Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve the Freedom of Speech (2021).

Helen Norton is the University Distinguished Professor and Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. Her work focuses on constitutional law and antidiscrimination law, and includes The Government’s Speech and the Constitution, published by Cambridge University Press.

Jacob Noti-Victor is an associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. His research focuses on how the law impacts innovation, culture, and the deployment of new technologies. His most recent articles have appeared in the Washington University Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review.

Victor Pickard is the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he codirects the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center. He has authored or edited six books, most recently, Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Robert C. Post is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He served as the school’s sixteenth dean from 2009 until 2017. Post specializes in constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the First Amendment.

Amanda Shanor is an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who teaches and writes about constitutional law, particularly the freedom of speech. Shanor’s research explores the changing meaning of the First Amendment and the forces that affect it; democratic theory, illiberalism, and equality; and the intersection of constitutional law and economic life.

Nik Usher, Ph.D. (they/them) is an associate professor at the University of San Diego (USD) in the department of communication. Usher’s research focuses on news in the changing digital environment, blending insights from media sociology and political communication. Usher is the author of three books: Making News at The New York Times (University of Michigan Press, 2014), Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code (University of Illinois, 2016), and News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia, 2021), and coeditor of Journalism Research That Matters (Oxford, 2021), with Valerie Belair-Gagnon.

Sonja R. West holds the Otis Brumby Distinguished Professorship in First Amendment Law at the University of Georgia, a post shared by the School of Law and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. A former journalist and media law attorney, West served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She now specializes in constitutional law, media law, and the U.S. Supreme Court.