The Constitution guarantees that all states will have a republican form of government. But how is this enforced? Don’t miss Francesca Procaccini’s new article addressing this very question in Fordham Law Review! #Highlightwomen #WomenAlsoKnowLaw buff.ly/35uLpWX

"[Ginsburg] recognized that equal opportunity is vital to self-determination, and that personal liberty is secure only insofar as society respects each of us as equals," Francesca Procaccini writes: on.theatln.tc/efQhONz

“Murder on Middle Beach” on HBO this week featured MFIA Clinic director @MFIADave, former fellow Francesca Procaccini, & students Jake van Leer & Sara Sampoli representing madison_hamburg at a CT Freedom of Information Commission hearing. Proud to see the Clinic's hard work on TV!

Welcome to the 1st plenary of our Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference #FESC9! Thanks to Loyola Law Chicago's Alexander Tsesis, Sturm College of Law's Alan Chen @profalankchen & Harvard Law School's (& MFIA Clinic's) Francesca Procaccini Francesca Procaccini for their thoughts on Compelled Speech Doctrine!

Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference #FESC9 Breakout Session 5! Thanks to Francesca Procaccini Francesca Procaccini for her paper, "Equal Speech Protection" & to Ashutosh Bhagwat Ashutosh Bhagwat for his comments! cc craig newmark MFIA Clinic Jack Balkin The Information Society Project Harvard Law School

We are excited to welcome our new faculty starting this fall in the @Vanderbiltlaw! Francesca Procaccini #VUFaculty #AnchorDown⚓️

Want to fix the Court? Start by fixing Congress. @nikenberger and I wrote about how Congressional underreach enables Court overreach, and some ways to start tackling the problem. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Absolutely true: whoever is mute about Congressional abdication should not complain about Supreme Court action. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Quoted among some greats in The New York Times on free speech and democracy. Read here! nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opi…

Shared some thoughts re Trump and the First Amendment on Michael Smerconish this morning! cnn.com/videos/politic…

New Article! "Social Network as Work," forthcoming in Cornell Law Review Reconceptualizing social media as a form of labor, reframing users as workers and platforms as employers, to offer a constitutional breakthrough for regulating harassment/misinfo online papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Watch/listen 6 ET tonight on Open to Debate NPR CSPAN live from Chicago - Has Citizens United Undermined Democracy? with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy vs. Floyd Abrams & Eric Wang I mean, is it even a debate??

Join us in celebrating the six #VandyLaw professors who were honored with Hall-Hartman Awards for Outstanding Teaching: Rebecca Allensworth, Ingrid Brunk, Brian Fitzpatrick, Francesca Procaccini, Matthew Shaw, and Kevin Stack, and Arjun Sethi! Read more at ow.ly/u4SU50RwhJE

The brilliant Marc Kalani’s new short audio doc on death penalty mitigation work, a story about how humanity transcends, and seeing humans where the system sees monsters. Worth many listens

🔍 Do Anti-CRT laws violate the First Amendment? Professor Francesca Procaccini argues they might infringe on students' rights to receive information, which is crucial for democratic participation. Discover her insights: ow.ly/sO2950Sk4Ln

New Article alert! The End of Means-End Scrutiny, now on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… The Court is widely and discreetly abandoning means-end scrutiny, transforming rights and judicial review in the process. Feedback welcome! My two-week old editor says it's a must read :)

The End of Means-End Scrutiny This article provides a complete critique of the numerous doctrinal transformations that together comprise the larger #constitutional revolution of ending means-end #scrutiny. Author: Francesca Procaccini Read the full paper: spkl.io/60124hfV2

With acute awareness of the irony... check out this article by me and @nikenberger arguing Meta's new content moderation policy just proves Meta (and speech monopolies like it... looking at you X) need to be broken up-- prospect.org/power/2025-01-…