Bio
Vera Eidelman is a staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to 鈥渞iot boosting鈥 laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as 鈥渙bscene,鈥 and 老澳门开奖结果 v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the 老澳门开奖结果, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the 老澳门开奖结果, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work
Feb 5, 2021
The Streets Belong to the People 鈥 Always Have, Always Will
Jan 7, 2021
Clearview's Dangerous Misreading of the First Amendment Could Spell the End of Privacy Laws
Jun 3, 2020
The Response to Protests Against Police Brutality is Not More Brutality
Oct 24, 2019
South Dakota Governor Caves on Attempted Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters
Oct 2, 2019
Rapid DNA Machines in Police Departments Need Regulation
Apr 17, 2019
There鈥檚 No Such Thing as a Right Not to Be Called a Nazi
Apr 2, 2019
The Government鈥檚 System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional
Apr 1, 2019
The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters
Feb 7, 2019
When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a 鈥榋one,鈥 It Isn鈥檛 Free