Kate Klonick

I am an Associate Professor of Law at St. John's University Law School and hold fellowships at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, and the Brookings Institution. For 2023-2024 I am a Visiting Professor at SciencesPo École de Droit in Paris as a Fulbright Schuman Innovation Scholar where I'm researching the enforcement of the European Union's Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts.

My research focuses on private governance of online speech --  how transnational corporations' digital media platforms make the rules that control our right to freedom of expression. My past work in this area focused on the development of Facebook's new Oversight Board, the independent body that hears appeals on content from Facebook users and advises the platform about its online speech policies. The results of this research were published in a feature in the Yale Law Journal in June 2020 and The New Yorker in February 2021.

In addition to online speech and governance, I write and work on issues related to property, online shaming, content moderation, algorithms, privacy, and intellectual property. My work on these topics has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Georgetown Law Journal, Maryland Law Review, New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Lawfare, Vox, The Guardian and numerous other publications.