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 30, 2018
Laws Targeting Israel Boycotts Fail First Legal Test
Nov 29, 2017
Can a Government Official Block You on Twitter?
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Jul 7, 2017
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Apr 10, 2017
Government Goes After Critic on Twitter, Remembers Constitution Just in Time
Mar 30, 2017
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Feb 17, 2017
Where Protests Flourish, Anti-Protest Bills Follow
Dec 19, 2016
FAA Helps Police Suppress Reporting From Dakota Pipeline Protests