Ari Cohn

Ari Cohn is a civil liberties attorney and director of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in the U.S.[1] He has spoken out against limited area for free speech on college campuses, for the rights of students to protest even if their views are offensive, and has been involved in various controversial issues on college campuses. He has defended the rights of college students to free speech.[2][3] He has also challenged security fee assessments on hosts of controversial speakers on campuses.[4][5] Cohn has spoken about the rights of those facing accusations in the Me Too movement (#MeToo) movement.[6]

According to Cohn's profile at FIRE, he is from Skokie, Illinois, received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School. He was a legal intern in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Office of University Counsel. He was a legal fellow for FIRE in 2011 and then joined the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP, representing multinational corporations in commercial litigation. He plays the guitar and violin and has a Siberian Husky.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Free speech demands and fear of violence collide at UW — again". 9 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "University of Alabama may have violated First Amendment by kicking out racist student, experts say".
  3. ↑ "Alabama student's First Amendment rights may have been violated over racist rant". 26 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Lawsuit battle over campus free speech security costs - University World News". www.universityworldnews.com.
  5. ↑ "Security Costs Loom Larger in Campus Free-Speech Fights. A Lawsuit Shows Why". 7 February 2018.
  6. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin. "The Conversation #MeToo Needs to Have".
  7. ↑ https://www.thefire.org/author/ari/
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