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The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, and public education
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Legislative Protection for Public Forums
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/legislative-protection-for-public-forums
Published: June 12, 2026 07:00
One part of President Trump’s ongoing assault on the freedoms of speech and the press has involved the distortion of what First Amendment doctrine calls “public forums”—spaces the government has deliberately opened to the public or press for expression.…
Knight Institute Endorses Bipartisan Bill to Protect Against Government Jawboning
Published: June 11, 2026 07:00
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University today endorsed the Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act, or JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR). The…
Knight Institute Urges Eleventh Circuit to Reverse District Court Order Barring Release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Report
Published: June 11, 2026 07:00
FORT PIERCE, Fla.—The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a supplemental opening brief today urging the Eleventh Circuit to reverse Judge Aileen Cannon’s order permanently enjoining the Department of Justice from releasing Special…
A Nongovernmental Disbursement Structure to Fund Research
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/a-nongovernmental-disbursement-structure-to-fund-research
Published: June 9, 2026 07:00
There is no perfect way to fund higher education. Relying chiefly on tuition favors wealthy students and results in underfunding of the research mission of most colleges and universities because students who see themselves as customers understandably would…
United States v. Inofuentes
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/united-states-v-inofuentes
Published: June 9, 2026 07:00
On June 9, 2026, the Knight Institute and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Michael Inofuentes, a criminal case in which the prosecution relied on evidence obtained from warrantless cellphone…
Umemoto v. Westchester County Police Department
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/umemoto-v-westchester-county-police-department
Published: June 9, 2026 07:00
On June 9, 2026, the Knight Institute, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, and Freshfields LLP filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the legality of a mass vehicle surveillance system operated by the…
Westchester Drivers Challenge County Police Department’s Warrantless Mass Vehicle Surveillance System
Published: June 9, 2026 07:00
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Today, New York drivers are challenging the legality of a mass vehicle surveillance system operated by the Westchester County Police Department (WCPD) that indiscriminately tracks their personal vehicle data and driving patterns. The…
"Lawyering Without Law" Transcript: Ep. 3
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/lawyering-without-law-transcript-ep-3
Published: May 29, 2026 07:00
Katy Glenn Bass: There is a normative erosion going on and it starts in law schools and it goes all the way through the legal profession in what the value of law is and what the value of an independent legal profession is. And what the value or even idea…
Toward Collaborative Disagreement
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/toward-collaborative-disagreement
Published: May 27, 2026 07:00
It is common wisdom that Americans live in information echo chambers that shape their views of the world, stifle dialogue across ideological and cultural difference, and contribute to polarization. We all have our informational and social networks, “they”…
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Federal Policy Silencing Immigration Judges, Reverses Appeals Court
Published: May 26, 2026 07:00
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court today granted the government’s request to reverse an appeals court decision that had allowed a legal challenge to the Department of Justice policy silencing immigration judges to proceed in federal court. It also denied…
WhatsApp v. NSO Group
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/whatsapp-v-nso-group
Published: May 21, 2026 07:00
On May 20, 2026, the Knight Institute filed an amicus brief in WhatsApp v. NSO Group, a case concerning Pegasus, a commercial spyware tool developed by NSO Group. WhatsApp argues that NSO Group violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), California’s…
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/do-ai-risks-require-extraordinary-government-intervention
Published: May 21, 2026 07:00
In a recent essay, Derek Thompson engages with AI as Normal Technology (AINT). He agrees with our thesis about AI’s slow labor market impacts, relying on the fact that GDP growth has so far been average, unemployment is below five percent, and even jobs…
Reimagining and Reconstructing U.S. Public Media
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/reimagining-and-reconstructing-us-public-media
Published: May 19, 2026 07:00
Modern democracies have long recognized that commercial media are incapable of providing for all of society’s informational, cultural, and educational needs. For most healthy democracies, this systemic market failure has necessitated maintaining robust…
Is Individualism the Problem? Toward a System of Free Expression that Challenges the Media Individualism Complex
Published: May 19, 2026 07:00
Any attempt to reconstruct a system of free expression in today’s information system would be smart to address one of its core frictions: though “the media” is ostensibly charged with developing and caring for shared interests, it is persistently dominated…
"Lawyering Without Law" Transcript: Ep. 2
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/lawyering-without-law-transcript-ep-2
Published: May 15, 2026 07:00
Lawrence Lessig: I feel that we need a kind of Churchillian response here. We will fight them on the beaches. We will never surrender, and we don’t have institutions right now where we have leaders who are going to say, “Hell no, we are never going to…
Knight Institute Lawyering Without Law Workshop and Essay Series to Feature Leading Scholars and Jurists
Published: May 14, 2026 07:00
On September 25-26, 2026, the Knight First Amendment Institute will host a work-in-progress workshop for a forthcoming scholarly essay series, “Lawyering Without Law: The Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism.” This workshop and essay series are…
Support Local Journalism, Expand the Definition of Fraud, and Guard Against Boomerang Effects
Published: May 14, 2026 07:00
Two broad categories of problems plague the information ecosystem of the United States: (1) long-term problems occasioned by technological changes over the last three decades; and (2) what one can only hope will prove to be short-term problems occasioned…
Realigning Incentives in the Democratic Public Sphere
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/re-aligning-incentives-in-the-democratic-public-sphere
Published: May 13, 2026 07:00
Fifteen months of the second Trump administration have made shockingly clear how vulnerable the American system of free expression is to government co-optation. When faced with administration demands that they suppress disfavored speech or change how they…
Trump Administration Escalates Attack on Press Freedom With Subpoenas Targeting Wall Street Journal Reporters
Published: May 12, 2026 07:00
NEW YORK—The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that it had received Justice Department subpoenas seeking records of reporters in connection with a February article about Pentagon officials’ warnings to President Trump regarding the risks of a military…
AI as Social Technology
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology
Published: May 11, 2026 07:00
Introduction Our debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science fiction. Back then, Vinge (1993) wrote essays and novels urging us to face up to the oncoming “Singularity”: a moment of rapid change that would fundamentally transform the human condition. On…
Knight Institute Launches Podcast on the Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism
Published: May 1, 2026 07:00
NEW YORK—The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University today launched “Lawyering Without Law,” a new biweekly podcast examining how lawyers and legal institutions shape democracy during periods of political strain. Co-hosted by Katy Glenn…
"Lawyering Without Law" Transcript: Ep. 1
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/lawyering-without-law-transcript-ep-1
Published: May 1, 2026 07:00
Katy Glenn Bass: Hi, everyone. A quick note before we start. This conversation was recorded before Viktor Orbán lost his reelection bid for Prime Minister of Hungary. After 16 years in power, he was defeated by Péter Magyar. Okay, now let’s start the show.…
The Right to Access Foreign Communicative Infrastructure
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-right-to-access-foreign-communicative-infrastructure
Published: May 1, 2026 07:00
I. Introduction Transformative ideas and transformative communicative practices from around the globe have enriched American public discourse and updated how Americans interact with one another. Social media platforms are only the latest means of…
Knight Institute Warns that FCC Review of Disney Broadcast Licenses Raises First Amendment Concerns After Trump Calls for Kimmel’s Firing
Published: April 28, 2026 07:00
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to call for an early review of Disney’s broadcast licenses, according to news reports, after President Trump called on ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for remarks made on a recent…
Knight Institute Says State Department Memo Confirms Unbounded Scope of Trump Immigration Policy
Published: April 24, 2026 07:00
NEW YORK—The U.S. government last night released a State Department memo in a case challenging an immigration policy that targets noncitizen researchers, advocates, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers for visa denials, revocations, detention, and…
Knight Institute Commends Mayor Mamdani for Vetoing NYC “Buffer Zone” Bill Restricting Protest Near Educational Facilities
Published: April 24, 2026 07:00
NEW YORK—New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani today vetoed a bill that would have restricted protest outside schools and educational facilities, a measure that would have given the New York Police Department (NYPD) broad authority to regulate political…
Knight Institute Warns Spyware Threatens Press Freedom
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-warns-spyware-threatens-press-freedom
Published: April 23, 2026 07:00
In a statement submitted to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for the record of its April 16 hearing on “The State of Exception in El Salvador: Year Five,” the Institute’s Policy Director Nadine Farid Johnson warned that the growing use of commercial…