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Alex Abdo

Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

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Alex Abdo
Alex Abdo

Title: Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

Institution: Columbia

Discipline: Social Sciences

Appearances: 1

Notable: Led landmark First Amendment litigation including challenge to Trump's blocking of Twitter critics; Yale College and Harvard Law School graduate

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Biography

Alex Abdo is a First Amendment litigator who has been at the forefront of legal challenges involving government surveillance, free speech, and digital rights. At the Knight Institute, he has litigated cases challenging the government's prepublication review system, the constitutionality of government officials blocking critics on social media, and the secrecy of Office of Legal Counsel opinions. He previously spent eight years at the ACLU litigating cases relating to NSA surveillance, encryption, and post-9/11 abuse of detainees.

Sample Works

Roundtable Appearances

Secrecy and Transparency
December 7, 2013 · ▶ Video
Secrecy and Transparency
The internet enables unprecedented sharing and manipulation of individual and social information, with implications for privacy, healthcare, citizenship, national security, and...
Technology & Digital
Alex Abdo, Jack Z. Bratich, Elizabeth Haase, Ted Jacobs, Michael Lewis
Podcast (1:50:58)
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