Prof. Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, at New York Law School and served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, the first woman to lead the organization. A leading expert on constitutional law and civil liberties, she is the author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018) and Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023), and co-author, with Greg Lukianoff, of The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech, and Why They Fail (2025). She is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and serves on advisory boards including the ACLU, the Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, and the National Coalition Against Censorship. The National Law Journal has named her one of America's 100 most influential lawyers, and her honors include the ABA's Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award and the National Coalition Against Censorship's Lifetime Achievement Award.