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
Jan 9, 2019
Court Rules Public Officials Can鈥檛 Block Critics on Facebook
Dec 26, 2018
When Portland Tried to Dictate Favorable News Coverage of Its Protest Crackdowns
Nov 13, 2018
The Costs of Forcing an Online Haven for Racists Off the Internet
Oct 22, 2018
Court Tells Georgia It Can鈥檛 Charge People to Read the Law
Sep 18, 2018
Some Schools Need a Lesson on Students鈥 Free Speech Rights
May 11, 2018
Why the Golden State Killer Investigation Is Cause for Concern
Feb 22, 2018
Can Schools Discipline Students for Protesting?