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Evelyn Douek is an Associate Professor at Stanford Law School, where she teaches and conducts research on freedom of speech and internet regulation. Her scholarly work focuses on the complex intersection of constitutional law, technology policy, and content moderation frameworks, with particular expertise in First Amendment issues as they apply to digital platforms and online communication.
Douek received her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) from Harvard Law School in 2022, following a Master of Laws (LLM) earned in 2017. She completed her legal education with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws (BComm/LLB) with first-class honors from the University of New South Wales in 2013, where she served as executive editor of the UNSW Law Journal. Prior to joining Stanford, she held positions as a senior research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and as a lecturer at Harvard Law School. Her professional experience also includes clerking for the Honourable Chief Justice Susan Kiefel of the High Court of Australia and working briefly as a commercial litigator.
Professor Douek's research examines how traditional legal frameworks can be adapted to address the unique challenges posed by internet communication. She investigates issues of misinformation governance, platform responsibility, and the balance between free expression and harm prevention in digital environments. Her work often challenges simplistic analogies between physical and digital spaces, advocating for nuanced regulatory approaches that account for the complex ecosystem of actors and incentives that shape online speech. She approaches these issues through both doctrinal legal analysis and systems thinking, considering the broader implications of content moderation decisions across multiple stakeholders.
Douek's scholarship reveals a consistent focus on developing proportionality-based frameworks for online speech regulation that respect constitutional principles while addressing real-world harms. Her work spans historical constitutional interpretation applied to modern digital contexts, medical misinformation regulation, and innovative approaches to platform governance that move beyond binary content removal decisions.
- John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching (2024)
Professor Douek teaches Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law: Free Speech, Platform Regulation and the First Amendment, and Policy Practicum: University Anti-Doxxing Policies. She has hosted the "Moderated Content" podcast at Stanford Law School, extending her scholarly engagement with these critical issues to broader audiences. Her expertise is frequently sought by major media outlets, with commentary appearing in The New York Times (including coverage of Elon Musk's relationship with far-right figures), The Washington Post, NPR, and other prominent publications, demonstrating the significant real-world impact of her scholarship on contemporary technology policy debates.
