The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education. Through our work, we ...

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is looking for legal interns for the summer of 2027. We want a diverse group of creative, motivated, and committed law students to join us ...

Last month’s confluence of FOIA’s 60th and America’s 250th anniversaries has made amateur historians of us all. Settled histories and understandings of our legal heritage have been reopened, for ...

The following can be attributed to Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute: ...

A lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to ban three news organizations from the White House.

A lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to ban three news organizations from the White House.

A lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to ban three news organizations from the White House.

An initiative focused on strengthening our system of free expression to better protect democracy against authoritarian attacks The leading organizations defending the rights of journalists in the ...

A symposium on how the “War on Terror” has shaped the freedoms of speech and the press In the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, makeshift memorials started to appear around the ...