Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School; senior fellow, FIRE; former president, American Civil Liberties Union

Nadine is New York Law School professor emerita and senior fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression). She was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008. She is an internationally acclaimed free-speech scholar and advocate, who regularly addresses diverse audiences and provides media commentary around the world and serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU and several academic freedom/free-speech organisations.

She is the host and project consultant for Free to Speak, a three-hour documentary film series distributed on public television in 2023. Also in 2023, Strossen received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Speech.

Her most recent books are: The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech — And Why They Fail (co-authored with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, 2025); Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023); HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018); and Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (1995), which was republished with a new preface in 2024 as part of the NYU Classics Series.

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